Watching the Train Wreck or Looking for the Brake?: Contemporary Film, Urban Disaster, and the Specter of Planning

Souls

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 207-226

  Johnson, Cedric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

cinema; Detroit; disaster; documentary film; Hurricane Katrina; New Orleans; planning; urban crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875390755     PISSN: 10999949     EISSN: 15483843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2012.766121     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Cedric Johnson, ed., The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).
2. Jaime Peck, Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (Oxford: Oxford University, 2010).
3. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University, 2005).
4. Patricia Turner, Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002).
5. Ethnic Notions, DVD, Directed by Marlon Riggs (1986: San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2004).
6. Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster (New York: Penguin, 2009).
7. It is disappointing, but certainly not surprising, that Red Dawn, the eighties cult classic about teenagers banding together to defend their small town from Soviet invasion would be remade for these anxious times. In the 2012 version, the Wolverines repel a North Korean invasion. Note.
8. Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class (New York: Basic Books, 2002).
9. Brian Tochterman, Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs, Radical History Review Winter, no. 112 (2012): 65-87.
10. Peck, Creative Liberties, in Constructions of Neoliberal Reason, 192-203.
11. Larry Bennett, The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2010).
12. Katharine G. Bristol, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, Journal of Architecture Education 44, no. 3 (1991): 163-171.
13. Charles Jencks, The Death of Modern Architecture, in The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 1986 [1977]), 14-20.
14. Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New Orleans, in Johnson, ed., The Neoliberal Deluge, 327-353.
15. John Arena, Driven From New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2012).