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Book SynopsisOnce a center of transatlantic cultural exchange and the avant-garde arts, New York City has transformed into a global metropolis. This book traces a shift that took shape as cultural practices and media underwent dramatic changes: it takes us from modernist visions of urban sublimity to postmodernist cityscapes; from Hart Crane’s Brooklyn Bridge to the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds; from Mina Loy’s poetics to Klaus Nomi’s transgressive musical performances and Jem Cohen’s multimedia experiments; from Martin Scorsese’s
Taxi Driver and the Magnum Photos portfolio to post-9/11 cinema and the photo blogs of the internet age. As we visit these urban spaces and dreamscapes, we enter territories that remain contested, dynamic locales in a city that keeps unfolding its transformative force.
Table of ContentsContents: Sabine Sielke: «New York, New York!»: Introduction – Heinz Ickstadt: Envisioning Metropolis: New York as Seen, Imaged, and Imagined – Cristanne Miller: «New York Israel» and the Poetry of Mina Loy – Sarah Wasserman: The Menace of the New: Mourning «The World of Tomorrow» at the 1939 New York World’s Fair – Anthony Kinik: Walkers in the City: Literature, Film, and the Figure of the
Flâneur in New York City – Steven Hoelscher: Magnum’s New York – Sabine Sielke: New York, New Hollywood, Trauma: Martin Scorsese’s
Taxi Driver Revisited – Bettina Schlüter: Alien Voice Transformations: Klaus Nomi’s Appearance on the Scene of New York’s Subculture – Nico Völker: Fresh Wounds, Old Heroes: 9/11 in American Cinema – Rainer Hillrichs: Remediating the Capital of Photography: New York Daily Photo Blogs – Ulfried Reichardt: New York - Global City? – Björn Bosserhoff: Beautiful Catastrophe: A New York City Bibliography.
