{"product_id":"welcome-to-fear-city","title":"Welcome to Fear City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnalyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2019 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Outstanding Academic Title \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Fear City\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public life-in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as \u003ci\u003eKlute\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe French Connection\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDetroit 9000\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeath Wish\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Taking of Pelham One Two Three\u003c\/i\u003e, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410470031704,"sku":"9781438471204","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438471204.jpg?v=1777896949","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/welcome-to-fear-city","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}