Come and Be Shocked
Come and Be Shocked Baltimore seen through the eyes of John Waters, Anne Tyler, Charles S. Whether it's the small-town eccentricity of Charm City (think duckpin bowling and marble-stooped row houses)…
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Come and Be Shocked
Baltimore seen through the eyes of John Waters, Anne Tyler, Charles S. 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. 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.
How, Rizzo asks, do the imaginary cities created by artists affect the real 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.