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Metropolis : the American city in popular culture / Robert Zecker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zecker, Robert, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--United States--History.
- Cities and towns.
- Human geography.
- History.
- United States.
- Urbanization--United States--History.
- Urbanization.
- Human geography--United States--History.
- City and town life--United States--History.
- City and town life.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Next stop, the ghetto : tours of ethnic exotica in the popular press
- "A problem that we, the public, must solve" : the gangster film
- "Certain sociological realities there" : a city for the 1960s and beyond
- "All of life was there before" : the urban nostalgic memoir
- "We never locked our doors at night" : Newark on the net, minus the mob.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780275997120
- 027599712X
- OCLC:
- 166390620
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