Author: Nathan Holmes
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143847122X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public life—in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. Nathan Holmes is a New York–based scholar and teacher, with a PhD in film and media studies from the University of Chicago.
Welcome to Fear City
Author: Nathan Holmes
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143847122X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public life—in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. Nathan Holmes is a New York–based scholar and teacher, with a PhD in film and media studies from the University of Chicago.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143847122X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public life—in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. Nathan Holmes is a New York–based scholar and teacher, with a PhD in film and media studies from the University of Chicago.
Welcome to Fear City. a Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York Courtesy of the NYPD 1975
Author: Panik
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Welcome To Fear City: NYC NYPD Punk Rock Notebook This 120 page journal features: 120 pages college ruled 6" x 9" white colored paper a cover page a matte finish cover for a elegant, professional look and feel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Welcome To Fear City: NYC NYPD Punk Rock Notebook This 120 page journal features: 120 pages college ruled 6" x 9" white colored paper a cover page a matte finish cover for a elegant, professional look and feel
Bem vindos à cidade do medo
Welcome to Fear City
Author: SARAH. DVOJACK
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781454953906
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Sylvie Stroud can see the past of any building just by touching it. Her powers have always been reliable, until one day she sees the memory of a teenage girl's murder without touching anything at all. There's a lot of violence in New York City, especially in 1977, but this is different. When the vision keeps repeating, Sylvie begins to investigate. But doing so accidentally awakens an old, parasitic magic lurking just beneath the surface of her beleaguered city. Now all it wants is Sylvie, and it will go through everyone Sylvie loves to have her.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781454953906
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Sylvie Stroud can see the past of any building just by touching it. Her powers have always been reliable, until one day she sees the memory of a teenage girl's murder without touching anything at all. There's a lot of violence in New York City, especially in 1977, but this is different. When the vision keeps repeating, Sylvie begins to investigate. But doing so accidentally awakens an old, parasitic magic lurking just beneath the surface of her beleaguered city. Now all it wants is Sylvie, and it will go through everyone Sylvie loves to have her.
Crime, Fear, and the New York City Subways
Author: Dennis Kenney
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0275923223
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a welcome study of the impact of citizen action on crime and on the fear of crime. The author obtained the consent and cooperation of the Guardian Angels to use their activities in Harlem and the Bronx as a model in determining the effectiveness of such operations. In addition, on-site interviews were conducted with 2,700 nighttime subway riders, making this work the first substantial study of passenger attitudes and fears. Contradicting many previously held beliefs, these data show that actual incidents of subway crime are remarkably low and that fear of crime among nighttime riders, while high, is not exceptional when compared to fear previously found in above ground settings. Moreover, the activities of the Guardian Angels were found to have no apparent effect on crime or on overall fear and did not increase the willingness of passengers to help one another.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0275923223
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a welcome study of the impact of citizen action on crime and on the fear of crime. The author obtained the consent and cooperation of the Guardian Angels to use their activities in Harlem and the Bronx as a model in determining the effectiveness of such operations. In addition, on-site interviews were conducted with 2,700 nighttime subway riders, making this work the first substantial study of passenger attitudes and fears. Contradicting many previously held beliefs, these data show that actual incidents of subway crime are remarkably low and that fear of crime among nighttime riders, while high, is not exceptional when compared to fear previously found in above ground settings. Moreover, the activities of the Guardian Angels were found to have no apparent effect on crime or on overall fear and did not increase the willingness of passengers to help one another.
Terror in the Trenches Vol. 1
U.S. News & World Report
New York
Author: Milton Martin Klein
Publisher: Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Maps in Minds
Author: Roger M. Downs
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Journal of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description