COME and BE SHOCKED – BALTIMORE beyond John Waters and The Wire
Inbunden bok. –– FÖRLAGSNY! –– Johns Hopkins University Press. 2020. 304 sidor.
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Baltimore seen through the eyes of John Waters, Anne Tyler, Charles S. Dutton, Barry Levinson, David Simon-and also ordinary citizens. The city of Baltimore features prominently in an extraordinary number of films, television shows, novels, plays, poems, and songs. Whether it's the small-town eccentricity of Charm City or the gang violence of "Bodymore, Murdaland," Baltimore has figured prominently in popular culture about cities since the 1950s.
• In the book, Mary Rizzo examines the cultural history and racial politics of these contrasting images of the city. From the 1950s, a period of urban crisis and urban renewal, to the early twenty-first century, Rizzo looks at how artists created powerful images of Baltimore.
• How, Rizzo asks, do the imaginary cities created by artists affect the real cities that we live in? How does public policy (intentionally or not) shape the kinds of cultural representations that artists create? And why has the relationship between artists and Baltimore city officials been so fraught, resulting in public battles over film permits and censorship?
• To answer these questions, Rizzo explores the rise of tourism, urban branding, and citizen activism. She considers artists working in the margins, from the East Baltimore poets writing in Chicory, a community magazine funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity, to a young John Waters, who shot his early low-budget movies on the streets, guerrilla-style.
• She also investigates more mainstream art, from the teen dance sensation The Buddy Deane Show to the comedy-drama Roc to the crime show The Wire, from Anne Tyler's award-winning book The Accidental Tourist to Barry Levinson's movie classic Diner.
• Innehållsförteckning: Renewal and Resistance. The City of Anger: Blockbusting and Cultural Representations of White Innocence. From Blight to Filth: John Waters in the Age of Urban Renewal. "The Most Authentic Microphone of Black Folks Talking Ever Devised": Chicory and the Poetry of Human Renewal. Hollywood East: William Donald Schaefer Animates Neoliberal Baltimore Part II. Good Mo(u)rning, Baltimore. Accidental Tourists: Alienated Whiteness amid Renaissance. A People's History of Baltimore: Roc, The Wire, and Baltimore on TV. Welcome to Baltimore, Hon!: Race, Gender, and Urban Branding at the End of the Century.
"Mary Rizzo puts Baltimore in context, historically and culturally, through the lens of the arts, from film to literature to music dating back to the 1950s and up to present day. Through her research and synthesis, we learn how the arts shaped Baltimore's identity … As Rizzo weaves together narratives of a city long divided by race, she, too, helps to paint a picture of what Baltimore's identity was, what it is, and what it's becoming." - Lauren LaRocca, Baltimore Magazine.
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