Urban Legends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Legends write by Ngaire E. Genge. This book was released on 2010-06-09. Urban Legends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban Legends is a remarkably complete collection of the modern myths that make the rounds in offices, college dorms, and every other place where people tell the stories that spring from our deepest fears and fascinations. Every culture has its folktales including ours. Except, instead of involving gods and goddesses or princes and princesses, ours involve "some guy my sister's best friend knows" or "someone who woke up in a motel room." They happened, supposedly, to real people, usually recently, in a particular place. And they touch the most sensitive nerves of our psyches with ironic twists, gross-out shocks, and moral lessons learned the hard way. From the classic tale "The Mexican Pet" in which the "dog" turns out to be no Chihuahua to the more unappetizing story of condoms as fast-food burger garnish, from surgically skilled kidney thieves to sexual experiments that end in the emergency room, Urban Legends relates more 300 of the most enticing, macabre, and unforgettable tales. Expertly told, they are arranged in such chapters as "Crazy Little Thang Called Sex," "Oh, Scare Me," "Campus Capers," "Corporate Convolutions," and "So Much For Comfort Food." Fascinating, chilling, and occasionally repulsive, Urban Legends has all your favorites and hundreds more.
Urban Legends
Urban Legends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Legends write by Peter L'Official. This book was released on 2020-07-21. Urban Legends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the “inner city” symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths. For decades, the South Bronx was America’s “inner city.” Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the preeminent symbol used to proclaim the failings of urban places and the communities of color who lived in them. Images of its ruins—none more infamous than the one broadcast live during the 1977 World Series: a building burning near Yankee Stadium—proclaimed the failures of urbanism. Yet this same South Bronx produced hip hop, arguably the most powerful artistic and cultural innovation of the past fifty years. Two narratives—urban crisis and cultural renaissance—have dominated understandings of the Bronx and other urban environments. Today, as gentrification transforms American cities economically and demographically, the twin narratives structure our thinking about urban life. A Bronx native, Peter L’Official draws on literature and the visual arts to recapture the history, people, and place beyond its myths and legends. Both fact and symbol, the Bronx was not a decades-long funeral pyre, nor was hip hop its lone cultural contribution. L’Official juxtaposes the artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s carvings of abandoned buildings with the city’s trompe l’oeil decals program; examines the centrality of the Bronx’s infamous Charlotte Street to two Hollywood films; offers original readings of novels by Don DeLillo and Tom Wolfe; and charts the emergence of a “global Bronx” as graffiti was brought into galleries and exhibited internationally, promoting a symbolic Bronx abroad. Urban Legends presents a new cultural history of what it meant to live, work, and create in the Bronx.
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends write by Jan Harold Brunvand. This book was released on 2001-10-17. Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
Creepy Urban Legends
Creepy Urban Legends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creepy Urban Legends write by Tim O'Shei. This book was released on 2011. Creepy Urban Legends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Describes scary urban legends, including The Vanishing Hitchhiker and The Babysitter on the Phone"--Provided by publisher.
Be Afraid Be Very Afraid
Be Afraid Be Very Afraid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Be Afraid Be Very Afraid write by Harold Jan Brunvand. This book was released on 2004-10-05. Be Afraid Be Very Afraid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of over ninety frightening urban legends, arranged by theme.
