This volume examines the role of New York City in and for: globalization, modernist painting, flaneurism, the postmodern city novel, the poetry of Mina Loy, Klaus Nomi's music performances, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, post-9/11 American cinema, the experimental films of Jem Cohen, the Magnum Photos portfolio, and daily city photo blogs.

Once a center of transatlantic cultural exchange and the avant-garde arts, New York City has transformed into a global metropolis. This book traces a shift that took shape as cultural practices and media underwent dramatic changes: it takes us from modernist visions of urban sublimity to postmodernist cityscapes; from Hart Crane's Brooklyn Bridge to the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds; from Mina Loy's poetics to Klaus Nomi's transgressive musical performances and Jem Cohen's multimedia experiments; from Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and the Magnum Photos portfolio to post-9/11 cinema and the photo blogs of the internet age. As we visit these urban spaces and dreamscapes, we enter territories that remain contested, dynamic locales in a city that keeps unfolding its transformative force.

Autorentext

Sabine Sielke is Chair of North American Literature and Culture and Director of the North American Studies Program and the German-Canadian Centre at the University of Bonn. Her research ranges from US-American poetry and poetics to the crossroads between cultural studies and the sciences.

Inhalt

Contents: Sabine Sielke: «New York, New York!»: Introduction - Heinz Ickstadt: Envisioning Metropolis: New York as Seen, Imaged, and Imagined - Cristanne Miller: «New York Israel» and the Poetry of Mina Loy - Sarah Wasserman: The Menace of the New: Mourning «The World of Tomorrow» at the 1939 New York World's Fair - Anthony Kinik: Walkers in the City: Literature, Film, and the Figure of the Flâneur in New York City - Steven Hoelscher: Magnum's New York - Sabine Sielke: New York, New Hollywood, Trauma: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver Revisited - Bettina Schlüter: Alien Voice Transformations: Klaus Nomi's Appearance on the Scene of New York's Subculture - Nico Völker: Fresh Wounds, Old Heroes: 9/11 in American Cinema - Rainer Hillrichs: Remediating the Capital of Photography: New York Daily Photo Blogs - Ulfried Reichardt: New York - Global City? - Björn Bosserhoff: Beautiful Catastrophe: A New York City Bibliography.