Poetic Resurrection : : The Bronx in American Popular Culture / / Sina A. Nitzsche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Nitzsche, Sina A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Studies ; 53
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction Welcome to The Bronx --; Chapter 1 Approaching the Boogie Down: The Bronx, Popular Culture, and the Poetic Resurrection --; Chapter 2 The Bronx is Not Lost: Remembering the Success Story in Literature --; Chapter 3 Zooming in on the Devastation: The Bronx as an Urban Frontier in Film --; Chapter 4 Creating a New Popular Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream in Hip-Hop --; Conclusions Global Dimensions of the Poetic Resurrection --; Works Cited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839453117; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783110696301; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839453117?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sina A. Nitzsche.

While in the late 1970s many Americans dismissed the cultural potential of the Bronx by claiming that "The Bronx is burning," this study challenges that assumption. This first-ever study on The Bronx in American popular culture shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina Nitzsche argues that popular culture functioned as a poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, which preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough. This poetic resurrection inspired the artistic rebirth of distressed communities across the US until today.