Table of contents for Urban nightmares : the media, the Right, and the moral panic over the city / Steve Macek.

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Contents
Introduction. A Landscape of Fear
1. The Origins of the Crisis: Race, Class, and the Inner City
2. Inventing the Savage Urban Other
3. Catastrophe Is Now: The Discourse on the Underclass 
4. Crack Alleys and Killing Zones: News Coverage of the Postindustrial City 
5. The Cinema of Suburban Paranoia
6. Wouldn't You Rather Be at Home? Marketing Middle-Class Agoraphobia
Conclusion. Awakening from Urban Nightmares 
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Selected National Television News Stories about the Urban Crisis, 1989-97
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Cities and towns -- United States -- Public opinion.
Inner cities -- United States.
Cities and towns in mass media.
Urban policy -- United States.
Fear of crime -- United States.