Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Josyph, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584655518 ISBN 13: 9781584655510

Verlag: University Press of New England, 2006

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Book by Josyph Peter

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More than a grave and a ruin, Ground Zero was a new New York neighborhood that transfigured the best and the oldest part of the city, turning your head with exotic sights that lifted you and flattened you simultaneously, proving, every hour, that ordinary men are creatures of infinite interest if only you can abide them and keep from getting killed. For one historic instant the meanest of mean streets were not in Harlem, the Bronx, or Little Italy . . . they were down at the end of the island where the air alone could kill you and your boots left prints in the dust of the dead. I was only a man with a camera having a long look around but there is no need to apologize for that. More movies should have been made there, for all that is gone now forever. "Josyph's vivid accounts of being near Ground Zero long after September 11... create a clear picture of a singular time in a unique neighborhood, and his decision to ignore regulations and film the neighborhood's reconstruction is one that will prove essential to historical record."--Publishers Weekly In Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero, Peter Josyph, an author and filmmaker, transforms his documentary film about the attack and its aftermath into a personal, impressionistic, almost poetic account... He artfully weaves together transcripts of his interviews... to produce what he describes as 'eyewitness studies of how urban catastrophe impacts the population and transforms the psychic and physical form of the city.'"--New York Times, Neighborhood Report

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Writer and feature film-maker Peter Josyph spent a year and a half combing the streets and the debris-blasted buildings of Ground Zero, talking with workers and residents, and capturing its struggles and transformations. This book is a haunting record of the extraordinary world that was created on September 11 and has now vanished forever. While much attention has been focused on the interior of Ground Zero, the surrounding neighbourhood has been largely ignored. Loyal Downtowners, who ran for their lives from the collapse of the Twin Towers, returned with a resolve to restore their world to order. Exploring this "dust-driven world of collateral damage," Josyph documented their struggle at a time when the bans against photography made him "a spy in the house of destruction." Misinformed and marginalized by city and federal agencies, the neighbourhood was on its own in coping with toxic infestation, landlords, insurers, and simple access to the place they were proud - and cursed - to call their home. Josyph finds in every detail new ways to envision that morning, and challenges more simplistic, mainstream views of Ground Zero with vivid portraits of exceptional New Yorkers, who made a place for themselves in that tragic and transitory neighbourhood.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: University Press of New England
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1584655518
• ISBN 13: 9781584655510
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320