By Barbara Mennel

ISBN-10: 0415364450

ISBN-13: 9780415364454

ISBN-10: 0415364469

ISBN-13: 9780415364461

Films approximately towns abound. they supply fantasies in case you realize their urban and people for whom the town is a remote dream or nightmare. How does cinema transform urban planners’ hopes and town dwellers’ fears of contemporary urbanism? Can an research of urban motion pictures resolution a number of the questions posed in city experiences? What types of imaginative and prescient for the longer term and photographs of the earlier do urban movies provide? What are the adjustments that urban movies have passed through?


Cities and Cinema places city idea and cinema reports in discussion. The book’s first part analyzes 3 very important genres of urban motion pictures that stick with in ancient series, every one linked to a specific urban, relocating from town movie of the Weimar Republic to the movie noir linked to la and a twin of Paris within the cinema of the French New Wave. the second one part discusses socio-historical subject matters of city reports, starting with the connection of movie industries and person towns, carrying on with with the portrayal of battle torn and divided towns, and finishing with the cinematic expression of utopia and dystopia in city technology fiction. The final part negotiates the query of identification and position in an international international, relocating from the portrayal of ghettos and barrios to town as a surroundings for homosexual and lesbian hope, to finish with the illustration of the worldwide urban in transnational cinematic practices.


The booklet means that modernity hyperlinks urbanism and cinema. It bills for the numerous alterations that urban movie has gone through via procedures of globalization, in which the town has built from an icon in nationwide cinema to a privileged website for transnational cinematic practices. it's a key textual content for college students and researchers of movie reports, city stories and cultural studies.

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