{"product_id":"skyscraping-frontiers","title":"Skyscraping Frontiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs 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 19\u003csup\u003eth \u003c\/sup\u003ecentury to its steady evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e 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 20\u003csup\u003eth \u003c\/sup\u003eand early 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e 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 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century short stories via a range of action, disaster and horror films to selected city novels of the 1990s and 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259928400216,"sku":"9783631792018","price":68.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783631792018.jpg?v=1777808753","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/skyscraping-frontiers","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}