It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Beautiful Terrible Ruins by Dora Apel
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery, imagery ultimately driven by a pervasive and growing cultural pessimism, a loss of faith in progress,...
Beautiful Terrible Ruins by Dora Apel is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.
This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Beautiful Terrible Ruins aloud.
Beautiful Terrible Ruins is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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