Screen LibraryThe city's end：two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of New York's destruction
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 271 p., [16] p. of plates: ill. (some col.), map ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780300110265 (cloth : alk. paper) 030011026X |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/P133 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index. Beauty and terror -- "Horrors were their delight" : terrifying and thrilling wars at home and invasions from abroad -- Utopian and dystopian fantasies of the "Stone Colossus" in the 1920s and 1930s -- "Falls Rome, falls the world" : atomic fears of the 1940s and 1950s -- Escape from New York : fictions of a city's decline and rebirth -- The future of the city's end : New York and its fantasies after 9/11. |