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4. The Bronx Isn’t Burning, Is It?: Ruin Porn and Contemporary Perceptions of The Bronx

verfasst von : Joseph Donica

Erschienen in: Ruin Porn and the Obsession with Decay

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The Bronx has a well-known and often-told history of crime, blight, and urban decay. National media has fixated on this period of the Bronx with Baz Luhrmann setting his recent Netflix show The Get Down against the backdrop of a burning Bronx to Anthony Bourdain filming his CNN show in the Bronx and obsessively focusing on the Bronx’s history. By looking to how these images of the Bronx shape our popular imagination of the borough, I make the larger argument that memories of place created by images of places we have never seen can challenge our notion of what it means to be urban in an increasingly pre-urban world. Such images can also offer us some consolation as the posthuman spaces evolve into prehuman landscapes once again.

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Titel: The Bronx Isn’t Burning, Is It?: Ruin Porn and Contemporary Perceptions of The Bronx
verfasst von: Joseph Donica
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Ruin Porn and the Obsession with Decay
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-93389-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-93390-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93390-0_4