This is Not a Dissertation: (Neo)Neo Bohemian Connections
Moore, Walter. Ph.D. Purdue University, December 2015. This is Not a Dissertation: (Neo)Neo Bohemian Connections. Major Professor: Lance Duerfahrd. This dissertation uses/packages selected post World War II literature, film, and photography to identify and analyze various aspects/nuances and influences/connections of/on/to Neo Bohemia in the contemporary United States, and aims to show how these textual associations and analyses interconnect with particular American cities and (neo)bohemian neighborhoods along with these spaces'/places' related residents and players. These interconnections shed light on a particular kind of gentrification process: the tendency of struggling artists/bohemians to bring attention and investment to their chosen U.S. urban neighborhoods. These dynamics then fit on an arc of transformation of a lower class/working class and/or abandoned place into a neo bohemian zone of art and entertainment but these dynamics also (inter)connect with a gentrification of theimaginary among participants and onlookers/certain consumers of a (neo)bohemian fantasy who physically and mentally buy/"buy" into the myth of the struggling/starving artist (and her habitus) and thus seek out an alternate location of art, creativity, and what many consider as outside of society; for, my given texts both materially and fantastically speak to the pre gentrification to neo bohemian gentrification plot points of this arc. In this writing while highlighting the texts of Allen Ginsberg, Nelson Algren, Otto Preminger, Art Shay, S.E. Hinton, Francis Ford Coppola, Larry Clark, and a few