Skyscraping Frontiers
As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric readi...
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| description | As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric readings, this study models the skyscraper not only as a Foucauldian heterotopia, but also as a complex network of human and nonhuman actors while retracing its development from its initial assemblage during the 19th century to its steady evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20th century onward. It takes a close look at US-American literary and filmic fictions and the ways in which they sought to make sense of this extraordinary structure throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. More traditional poststructuralist spatial theories are connected with concepts and methods of Actor-Network Theory in a compelling account of the skyscraper’s evolution as reflected in fictional media from early 20th-century short stories via a range of action, disaster and horror films to selected city novels of the 1990s and 2000s. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-728212025-08-13T14:11:44Z Skyscraping Frontiers Klein, Sascha 20th American Century Film Frontiers Heterotopia Klein Novel Skyscraper Skyscraping thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric readings, this study models the skyscraper not only as a Foucauldian heterotopia, but also as a complex network of human and nonhuman actors while retracing its development from its initial assemblage during the 19th century to its steady evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20th century onward. It takes a close look at US-American literary and filmic fictions and the ways in which they sought to make sense of this extraordinary structure throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. More traditional poststructuralist spatial theories are connected with concepts and methods of Actor-Network Theory in a compelling account of the skyscraper’s evolution as reflected in fictional media from early 20th-century short stories via a range of action, disaster and horror films to selected city novels of the 1990s and 2000s. 2021-11-16T05:19:33Z 2021-11-16T05:19:33Z 2021-11-15T15:28:37Z 2020 book ONIX_20211115_9783631821961_36 OCN: 1153078840 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51507 9783631821961 9783631821978 9783631821985 9783631792018 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72821 eng Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS) open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51507/1/9783631821961.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51507/1/9783631821961.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51507/1/9783631821961.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b16970 10.3726/b16970 44a712f0-ee17-4c08-a667-46effed595e7 9783631821961 9783631821978 9783631821985 9783631792018 316 Bern open access |
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