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Format: XIV, 210 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-8135-7406-6 , 978-0-8135-7407-3

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-0-8135-7408-0

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-0-8135-7409-7

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology , English Studies

Keywords: Stadtentwicklung ; Niedergang ; Ruine ; Kapitalismus ; Scheitern ; Ästhetik

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource : , 36 photographs

ISBN: 9780813574097

Content: Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery, imagery ultimately driven by a pervasive and growing cultural pessimism, a loss of faith in progress, and a deepening fear that worse times are coming. The images of Detroit’s decay speak to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster—in short, the failure of capitalism. Apel reveals how, through the aesthetic distancing of representation, the haunted beauty and fascination of ruin imagery, embodied by Detroit’s abandoned downtown skyscrapers, empty urban spaces, decaying factories, and derelict neighborhoods help us to cope with our fears. But Apel warns that these images, while pleasurable, have little explanatory power, lulling us into seeing Detroit’s deterioration as either inevitable or the city’s own fault, and absolving the real agents of decline—corporate disinvestment and globalization. Beautiful Terrible Ruins helps us understand the ways that the pleasure and the horror of urban decay hold us in thrall.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Modernity In Ruins -- , 1. Ruin Terrors And Pleasures -- , 2. Fear And Longing In Detroit -- , 3. Urban Exploration: Beauty In Decay -- , 4. Detroit Ruin Images: Where Are The People? -- , 5. Looking For Signs Of Resurrection -- , 6. Surviving In The Postapocalyptic Landscape -- , Conclusion: Your Town Tomorrow -- , Notes -- , Selected Bibliography -- , Index -- , About The Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813574097

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813574097

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813574097

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Format: 1 online resource (228 p.)

ISBN: 0-8135-7409-9

Content: Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere-the paradigmatic city of ruins-and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery, imagery ultimately driven by a pervasive and growing cultural pessimism, a loss of faith in progress, and a deepening fear that worse times are coming. The images of Detroit's decay speak to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster-in short, the failure of capitalism. Apel reveals how, through the aesthetic distancing of representation, the haunted beauty and fascination of ruin imagery, embodied by Detroit's abandoned downtown skyscrapers, empty urban spaces, decaying factories, and derelict neighborhoods help us to cope with our fears. But Apel warns that these images, while pleasurable, have little explanatory power, lulling us into seeing Detroit's deterioration as either inevitable or the city's own fault, and absolving the real agents of decline-corporate disinvestment and globalization. Beautiful Terrible Ruins helps us understand the ways that the pleasure and the horror of urban decay hold us in thrall.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Modernity In Ruins -- , 1. Ruin Terrors And Pleasures -- , 2. Fear And Longing In Detroit -- , 3. Urban Exploration: Beauty In Decay -- , 4. Detroit Ruin Images: Where Are The People? -- , 5. Looking For Signs Of Resurrection -- , 6. Surviving In The Postapocalyptic Landscape -- , Conclusion: Your Town Tomorrow -- , Notes -- , Selected Bibliography -- , Index -- , About The Author , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8135-7407-2

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books.

DOI: 10.36019/9780813574097