Urban nightmares : the media, the right, and the moral panic over the city

Publication Data

• Title Urban nightmares : the media, the right, and the moral panic over the city
• Author Steve Macek
• Publisher University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Minneapolis, Minn.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: A landscape of fear
The origins of the crisis : race, class, and the inner city
Inventing the savage urban other
Catastrophe is now : the discourse on the underclass
Crack alleys and killing zones : news coverage of the postindustrial city
The cinema of suburban paranoia
Wouldn't you rather be at home? : marketing middle-class agoraphobia
Conclusion: Awakening from urban nightmares.

Topics

• Cities and towns :: United States :: Public opinion
• Inner cities :: United States
• Cities and towns in mass media
• Urban policy :: United States
• 013431724

Urban nightmares : the media, the right, and the moral panic over the city by Steve Macek. ISBN 9780816643615. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.