
Stefan Rabitsch (ed.)
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Published online:
22 September 2022
Published in print:
04 February 2022
Online ISBN:
9781496836670
Print ISBN:
9781496836625
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Boy from the City Boy from the City
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The Atomic Age The Atomic Age
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The Sparkl End and Carousel of Progress The Sparkl End and Carousel of Progress
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Escaped in Time Escaped in Time
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
“It’s Not Good Here Anymore”: Nuclear Survival and New York City’s Space in Kenny Scharf’s Videos
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Pages
151–164
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Published:February 2022
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Wasserman, Andrew, '“It’s Not Good Here Anymore”: Nuclear Survival and New York City’s Space in Kenny Scharf’s Videos', in Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan L. Brandt (eds), Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (Jackson, MS , 2022; online edn, Mississippi Scholarship Online, 22 Sept. 2022), https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496836625.003.0009, accessed 7 May 2025.
Abstract
Andrew Wasserman’s chapter examines how Kenny Scharf revisited mid-Cold War fantasies of nuclear energy, nuclear weaponry, and space travel as usable content for coping with late-Cold War fears in American cities. Wasserman focuses on the early 1980s videos The Sparkle End and Carousel of Progress and reads them as visions of the short- and long-term effects of urban nuclear destruction. As Wasserman suggests, the videos’ emphasis on the city as a place of disaster and refuge are reflective of urban unease in the Carter era resolved through the products of the Kennedy and Johnson eras.
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Media Studies
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