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Urban Legends : The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin / Peter L'Official.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674246515
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 974.7/275 23
LOC classification:
  • F128.68.B8
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT -- 1. THE LONE TENEMENT -- 2. PERCEPTION IS REALITY -- 3. DEATH AND TAXES -- 4. A GLOBAL BRONX -- 5. SOUTH BRONX SURREAL -- 6. THE PARANOID STYLE OF SOUTH BRONX FILM -- CONCLUSION: THE RIVER IS DEEP -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary: Since the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the “inner city,” the exemplar of urban decay and of the cultural renaissance produced by hip hop. Peter L’Official turns to literature and visual arts to capture the history of a place whose truth lay obscured between the Bronx as symbol and the Bronx as lived fact.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT -- 1. THE LONE TENEMENT -- 2. PERCEPTION IS REALITY -- 3. DEATH AND TAXES -- 4. A GLOBAL BRONX -- 5. SOUTH BRONX SURREAL -- 6. THE PARANOID STYLE OF SOUTH BRONX FILM -- CONCLUSION: THE RIVER IS DEEP -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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Since the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the “inner city,” the exemplar of urban decay and of the cultural renaissance produced by hip hop. Peter L’Official turns to literature and visual arts to capture the history of a place whose truth lay obscured between the Bronx as symbol and the Bronx as lived fact.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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