New York, New York!: Urban Spaces, Dreamscapes, Contested Territories (8) (Transcription: Cultures - Concepts - Controversies / Kulturen - Konzepte - Kontroversen) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3631665547 ISBN 13: 9783631665541

Verlag: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissen, 2015

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Once a center of transatlantic cultural exchange and the avant-garde arts, New York City has transformed into a global metropolis. This book traces a shift that took shape as cultural practices and media underwent dramatic changes: it takes us from modernist visions of urban sublimity to postmodernist cityscapes; from Hart Crane's Brooklyn Bridge to the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds; from Mina Loy's poetics to Klaus Nomi's transgressive musical performances and Jem Cohen's multimedia experiments; from Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver 'and the Magnum Photos portfolio to post-9/11 cinema and the photo blogs of the internet age. As we visit these urban spaces and dreamscapes, we enter territories that remain contested, dynamic locales in a city that keeps unfolding its transformative force.

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Sabine Sielke is Chair of North American Literature and Culture and Director of the North American Studies Program and the German-Canadian Centre at the University of Bonn. Her research ranges from US-American poetry and poetics to the crossroads between cultural studies and the sciences.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissen
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3631665547
• ISBN 13: 9783631665541
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
• Herausgeber: Sielke Sabine