Imagining New York City - Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940

"Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the place and significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces--such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway--have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so doing, the book also considers the ways in which cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set the stage for more recent responses to a variety of urban challenges facing the city, such as post-disaster recovery, the renewal of urban infrastructure, and the remaking of public space"--

About the author

Christoph Lindner writes about cities, visual culture, creative practices, and globalization. He is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and founding Director of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. His previous publications include Paris-Amsterdam Underground: Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion; Globalization, Violence, and the Visual Culture of Cities; Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale; Urban Space and Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture; Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern; The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader.

Summary

Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces - the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway - have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition.

Additional text

worthwhile and insightful reading for anyone interested in New York City or cultural representations of urban spaces, in general.

Product details

• Authors: Christoph Lindner, Christoph (Professor of Media and Culture Lindner, Lindner Christoph
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2015
• EAN: 9780195375145
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537514-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; New York, The arts: general issues, 20th Century, ART / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Urban & municipal planning, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Urban and municipal planning and policy, The arts: general topics