Where the ball drops : days and nights in Times Square

著者

• Makagon, Daniel

書誌事項

Where the ball drops : days and nights in Times Square

Daniel Makagon

University of Minnesota Press, c2004

• hard
• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

hard ISBN 9780816642755

内容説明

Capturing the competing social and cultural fantasies, the everyday events and historical visions that have given shape and meaning to Times Square, this book reveals an ongoing urban drama that thrives on the contradictions of public and private life, on individual desires for belonging and anonymity, and on a sense of place and placelessness.

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780816642762

内容説明

"This is the best book I've read about the recent changes in Times Square and what they mean." -Luc Sante, author of Low Life During the 1990s, Times Square changed its colors, from a notoriously seedy urban center to a family-friendly, corporate-sponsored entertainment district. Whether this was a renaissance or a loss of soul, a dream fulfilled or just another urban nightmare, the transformation of America's best-known intersection illuminates conflicts occurring in U.S. cities nationwide-between pleasure and moralism, participation and exclusion, global connectedness and local roots. A street-level portrait of Times Square's people, Daniel Makagon's work includes artfully rendered interviews, dialogues, and reflections. Where the Ball Drops reveals an ongoing urban drama that thrives on the contradictions of public and private life, on individual desires for belonging and anonymity, and on a sense of place and placelessness. It is one of the most complete, nuanced, and ultimately convincing accounts to date of the changes wrought by contemporary urban revitalization. "Daniel Makagon presents a skilful ethnographic interpretation of how 'competing fantasies about the meaning and material reality of Times Square, which are advanced through various rhetoric visions, are affirmed, challenged, and, at times, undermined by the practices of everyday life.'" -Cultural Studies Daniel Makagon is assistant professor of communication at DePaul University.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA76620505
• ISBN:
  • 0816642753
  • 9780816642762
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Minneapolis
• ページ数/冊数: xxiii, 268 p.
• 大きさ: 23-24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : F128.65.T5
  • DC22 : 974.7/1
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- Description and travel
  • LCSH : Street life -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
  • LCSH : Makagon, Daniel -- Travel -- New York (State) -- New York