Main entry:

Page, Max.

Title & Author:

The city's end : two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of New York's destruction / Max Page.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.

Description:

271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index.
Beauty and terror -- "Horrors were their delight" : terrifying and thrilling wars at home and invasions from abroad -- Utopian and dystopian fantasies of the "Stone Colossus" in the 1920s and 1930s -- "Falls Rome, falls the world" : atomic fears of the 1940s and 1950s -- Escape from New York : fictions of a city's decline and rebirth -- The future of the city's end : New York and its fantasies after 9/11.

Summary:

"Max Page examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York's development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paintings, and computer software, such images, though disturbing, have been continuously popular. Page demonstrates with vivid examples and illustrations how each era's destruction genre has reflected the city's economic, political, racial, or physical tensions, and he also shows how the images have become forces in their own right, shaping Americans' perceptions of New York and of cities in general."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780300110265 (cloth ; alk. paper)
030011026X
9780300164466
0300164467

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Bibel Philemonbrief
American fiction 20th century History and criticism.
Disasters in literature.
Disasters in art.
Disaster films History and criticism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Influence.
Roman américain 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Catastrophes dans la littérature.
Catastrophes dans l'art.
Films-catastrophes Histoire et critique.
American fiction.
Civilization.
Disaster films.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature.
Motion pictures.
Geschichte
Kultur
Kunst
Literatur
New York
Zerstörung
Künste
New York (N.Y.) In literature.
New York (N.Y.) In art.
New York (N.Y.) In motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) Civilization.
New York (State) New York.
USA
New York <NY, Motiv>

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258699
Call No.: BIB 189491
Status: Available