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

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.
Subjects:
City and town life > Michigan > Detroit.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Public opinion > United States.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
Urban renewal > Michigan > Detroit.
City and town life
Economic history
Frontier and pioneer life
Popular culture
Public opinion
Race relations
Racism in popular culture
Social conditions
Urban renewal
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions.
Detroit (Mich.) > Public opinion.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions.
Michigan > Detroit
United States
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • 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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