Beautiful wasteland : the rise of Detroit as America's postindustrial frontier /

"The first book to analyze how contemporary ideas of Detroit circulate in popular culture in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty first century cultural locations--an internet web forum, architec...

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Author / Creator: Kinney, Rebecca J., 1979- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Building a beautiful wasteland -- It's turned into a race thing : white innocence and the old neighborhood -- Picturing ruin and possibility : the rise of the postindustrial frontier -- Fanning the embers : branding Detroit as a phoenix rising -- Flickers of the American dream : filming possibility in decline -- Feeding Detroit's rise : provisions for urban pioneers -- Conclusion: The strait : a tale of two cities. 
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