Unit V, Part One: THE CITY AS FRONTIER: The Urban Wild West

• WRITTEN TEXTS:
• Chapter 7, The Urban Experience
• Neil Smith, "New City, New Frontier, The Lower East Side as Wild West," Variations on a Theme Park
• Giroux, pp.55- 65 of "Racism and the Aesthetic of Hyper-Real Violence," in Fugitive Cultures
• FILM/VIDEO TEXTS:
• Excerpt from John Ford, The Searchers in A Personal Journey through American Movies with Martin Scorsese

Resources on The Searchers
• DISCUSSION TOPICS: What is Gentrification? Selling Segregation and Displacement as Urban Renewal; The Hollywood Western and Urban Images
• STUDY GUIDE for Unit V, Part 1 Readings and AudioVisual