New York City, Part 2 (Paul Levine and Liao Weichun)
New York: The Modern City
February 21. Introduction
Video: New York City, part 5: Cosmopolis
February 28. Video: New York City, part 5: Cosmopolis
Reading: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
March 7.
Reading: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Herbert Mitgang, Once Upon a Time in New York
March 14. Reading: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, ”My Lost City”
Film: The Great Gatsby
March 21. Video: New York City, Part 6: City of Tomorrow
Reading: Ralph Ellison, ”New York, 1936”
Langston Hughes, ”When Harlem Was in Vogue”
Nathan Huggins, ”Harlem on My Mind”
March 28. Video: New York City, Part 6: City of Tomorrow
Reading: E. L. Doctorow, World’s Fair, Chapters 28, 29 &31
David Gelernter, 1939: The Lost World of the Fair, Chapter 1
Fiorello LaGuardia, ”Ten Misconceptions of New York”
Robert Moses, ”Fiorello LaGuardia”
Lewis Mumford, Sidewalk Critic
April 4.
Film: Cradle Will Rock
Daniel Okrent, Great Fortune, Chapter 18
Lewis Mumford, Sidewalk Critic
William Scott & Peter Rutkoff, New York Modern, Chapter 6
April 11.
Film: Eat a Bowl of Tea
Reading: Bernard Malamud, ”The German Refugee”
James Sanders, Celluloid Skyline
Isaac Bashevis Singer, ”The Cafeteria”
E. B. White, Here is New York
April 18.
Film: The Pawnbroker
Reading: James Baldwin, ”Notes of a Native Son”
James Baldwin, ”Fifth Avenue, Uptown”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, ”The Harlem Ghetto”
April 25. Video: New York City, Part 7: The City and the World
Reading: E. L.Doctorow, ”Childhood of a Writer”
E. L. Doctorow, ”The Writer in the Family”
Kate Simon, ”The Movies and Other Schools”
May 2.
Holiday
2. New York: The World City
May 9.
Film: Pollock
Edward Denby, ”The Thirties”
Robert Hughes, American Visions
William Scott & Peter Rutkoff, New York Modern, Chapter 10
May 16.
Film: Radio Days
Reading: Norman Podhoretz, ”The Brutal Bargain”
Irving Howe, ”The New York Intellectuals”
Alfred Kazin, ”A Walker in the City”
May 23.
Film: Annie Hall
Reading: Sam B. Girgus, ”Desire and Narrativity in Annie Hall”
Christopher J. Knight, ”Woody Allen’s Annie Hall”
James Sanders, Celluloid Skyline, Chapter 14
Joan Didion, ”Goodbye to All That”
May 30. Film: Working Girl
Reading: John Steele Gordon, The Great Game, Chapter 15 & Epilogue
Michael Lewis, Liar’s Poker
Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities, Prologue, Chapters 1, 3 & 4
June 6.
Film: Dog Day Afternoon
Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Chapters 2 & 3
Frank O’Hara, ”The Day Lady Died”
June 13. Film: Moscow on the Hudson
Reading: Nancy Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK, Introduction, Chapters 1 & 8
Richard Alba & Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream, Chapter 5
Helen Zia, Asian American Dreams, Chapter 1
June 20. Video: New York City, Part 8: The Center of the World
Reading: Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
Richard Bernstein, Out of the Blue, Chapter 1
Marc Siegel, ”Aftermath of 9/11”
June 27. Video: New York City, Part 8: The Center of the World
Reading: Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo, ”In the Ruins of the Future”
Cynthia Ozick, ”The Synthetic Sublime”