Cities and Cinema

Name: Cities and Cinema
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ISBN: 9780415364461

ISBN-10: 0415364469

ISBN-13: 9780415364461

Edition: 2008

Authors: Barbara Mennel

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Films about cities abound. They provide fantasies for those who recognize their city and those for whom the city is a faraway dream or nightmare. How does cinema rework city planners' hopes and city dwellers' fears of modern urbanism? Can an analysis of city films answer some of the questions posed in urban studies? What kinds of vision for the future and images of the past do city films offer? What are the changes that city films have undergone? Cities and Cinema puts urban theory and cinema studies in dialogue. The book's first section analyzes three important genres of city films that follow in historical sequence, each associated with a particular city, moving from the city film of the…

Book details

List price: $67.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction: the founding myth of cinema, or the "train effect"


Introduction to Section I



Modernity and the city film: Berlin



The dark city and film noir: Los Angeles



The city of love: Paris


Introduction to Section II



City film industry: Hong Kong



The city in ruins and the divided city: Berlin, Belfast, and Beirut



Utopia and dystopia: fantastic and virtual cities


Introduction to Section III



Ghettos and barrios



The city as queer playground



The global city and cities in globalization


Conclusion: from the "train effect" to the "favela effect" - how to do further research


Notes


Bibliography


Filmography


Index