The city since 9/11 : literature, film, television

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

This book analyzes post-9/11 literature, film, and television through an interdisciplinary lens, taking into account contemporary debates about spatial practices, gentrification, cosmopolitanism, memory and history, nostalgia, the uncanny and the abject, postmodern virtuality, the politics of realis...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wilhite, Keith (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison [New Jersey] ; Teaneck : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Copublished by the Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2016]
Subjects:
2000-2099
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Cities and towns in literature
Cities and towns in motion pictures
Cities and towns on television
Motion pictures
Television programs
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of 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 and 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 and incredibly close / Michael Devine
  • Conclusion: ruins and memorials / Catalina Florina Florescu.

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