Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and The Moral Panic Over the City

Introduction: A landscape of fear -- The origins of the crisis : race, class, and the inner city -- Inventing the savage urban other -- Catastrophe is now : the discourse on the underclass -- Crack alleys and killing zones : news coverage of the postindustrial city -- The cinema of suburban paranoia -- Wouldn't you rather be at home? : marketing middle-class agoraphobia -- Conclusion: Awakening from urban nightmares