Rizzo Come and Be Shocked

Baltimore beyond John Waters and The Wire
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3792-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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 (think duckpin bowling and marble-stooped row houses) or the gang violence of "Bodymore, Murdaland," Baltimore has figured prominently in popular culture about cities since the 1950s.

In Come and Be Shocked, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rizzo, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Cities as Narratives
Part I. Renewal and Resistance
Chapter 1. The City of Anger: Blockbusting and Cultural Representations of White Innocence
Chapter 2. From Blight to Filth: John Waters in the Age of Urban Renewal
Chapter 3. "The Most Authentic Microphone of Black Folks Talking Ever Devised": Chicory and the Poetry of Human Renewal
Chapter 4. Hollywood East: William Donald Schaefer Animates Neoliberal Baltimore
Part II. Good Mo(u)rning, Baltimore
Chapter 5. Accidental Tourists: Alienated Whiteness amid Renaissance
Chapter 6. A People's History of West Baltimore: Roc, The Wire, and Baltimore on TV
Chapter 7. Welcome to Baltimore, Hon!: Race, Gender, and Urban Branding at the End of the Century
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rizzo, Mary
Mary Rizzo is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University–Newark. She is the author of Class Acts: Young Men and the Rise of Lifestyle.