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Title:

The city since 9/11 : literature, film, television / edited by Keith Wilhite.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

ix, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Motion pictures--History--21st century.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Television programs--United States--History--21st century.
Cities and towns on television.
American fiction.
Cities and towns in literature.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Cities and towns on television.
Motion pictures.
Television programs.
United States.
Villes--Au cinéma.
Villes--À la télévision.
Villes--Dans la littérature.
2000 - 2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Wilhite, Keith, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016008000

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Keith Wilhite -- Remapping the city: gentrification, the usable past, and the postmodern metropolis. Navigating the post-9/11 metropolis: reclaiming and remapping urban space in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud & incredibly close and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland / Karolina Golimowska -- Million dollar views: cognitive gentrification in post-9/11 New York City / Jason Buchanan -- New York unearthed: 9/11, let the great world spin, and the archaeology of grief / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman -- Rhetoric and aesthetics of the ephemeral in Ronald Sukenick's Last fall / Salwa Karoui-Elounelli -- The reality of fiction in a virtually postmodern metropolis: Jonathan Lethem's Chronic city and Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding edge / Justin St. Clair -- The metropolis unmoored: uncanny worlds and global cities. Zombies, the uncanny, and the city: Colson Whitehead's Zone one / Tim Gauthier -- The spectral city: Paul Auster's Man in the dark and other imagined cities / Eduardo Barros-Grela -- Global homesickness in William Gibson's Blue ant trilogy / Sean Scanlan -- Before after: Amitav Ghosh's pre-1856 cosmopolis as post-9/11 lost object / Hilary Thompson -- Shifting the city's center within Katherine Boo's Behind the beautiful forevers / Ghazala Hashmi -- Framing the city: abjection, realism, and the restorative power of cinema. Alfonso Cuarón's Children of men: piling up traumatic spectacles of terror in a Post-9/11 world / Jenny Kijowski -- Abject spaces in The bridge and The killing: the post-9/11 city of Nordic noir / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- Gritty urban realism as ideology: The wire and the televisual representation of the "inner city" / Steve Macek -- Early cinema and the post-9/11 city: Hugo and Extremely loud & incredibly close / Michael Devine -- Conclusion: ruins and memorials / Catalina Florina Florescu.

ISBN:

1611477182
9781611477184

OCLC:

(OCoLC)930683420

LCCN:

2015047547

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)