Poetic Resurrection : : The Bronx in American Popular Culture / / 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 i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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