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Glimpses of Phoenix
- The Desert Metropolis in Written and Visual Media
Engelsk Paperback
Glimpses of Phoenix
- The Desert Metropolis in Written and Visual Media
Engelsk Paperback

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Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a "clean" city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The "real" Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a place of ever-expanding development and economic growth, guarantees, it is said, an enviable lifestyle, low taxes, and unfettered personal freedom and opportunity.

Little of this is true. Phoenix has been described as one of the least sustainable cities in the country. This sixth largest urban area of the United States has an alarmingly superficial and tourism-oriented discourse among its leaders. This book examines a series of narrative works (novels, theater, chronicles, investigative reporting, personal accounts, editorial cartooning, even a children''s television program) that question this discourse in a frequently stinging fashion. The works examined are anchored in a critical understanding of the dominant urban myths of Greater Phoenix, and an awareness of how all the newness, modernity and fun-in-the-sun mentality mask a uniquely dystopian human experience.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9780786473649
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0786473649
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Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2013
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2013
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