Klein Sascha Klein

Skyscraping Frontiers (eBook, ePUB)

The Skyscraper as Heterotopia in the 20th-Century American Novel and Film

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric readings, this study models the skyscraper not only as a Foucauldian heterotopia, but also as a complex network of human and nonhuman actors while retracing its development from its initial assemblage during the 19^th century to its steady evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20^th century onward. It takes a close look at US-American literary and filmic fictions and the ways in which they sought to make sense of this extraordinary structure throughout the 20^th and early 21^st centuries. More traditional poststructuralist spatial theories are connected with concepts and methods of Actor-Network Theory in a compelling account of the skyscraper's evolution as reflected in fictional media from early 20^th-century short stories via a range of action, disaster and horror films to selected city novels of the 1990s and 2000s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783631821978
• Artikelnr.: 63026670

Autorenporträt

Sascha Klein has studied History and English Studies with a special focus on US-American literature and culture at the University of Cologne. He completed his PhD as a doctoral fellow at a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities and works as a free lecturer at the University of Cologne. His fields of interest range from American culture, media, and film studies to architecture and urban studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1.The Skyscraper as a Hybrid Network of Hybrid Actors

2.The Networks and Frontiers of the Skyscraper in Science Fiction and Modernist Literature of the 1900s to 1920

3. Reconfiguring the Skyscraper in the Shadow of Smart Technologies from the 1950s onwards

Conclusion: Open and Closed Systems