Cinema and the City

This Masquerading Age
Ed. by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice

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Produktbeschreibung

Integrates urban sociology and film studies literature to show what can be learnt about cities from film.

Provides an innovative and instructive contribution to urban studies.

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This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780631222446
• ISBN-10: 0631222448
• Artikelnr.: 14856203

Autorenporträt

Mark Shiel is Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and was formerly Faculty of Arts Fellow at the Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and completed his PhD, "Radical Agendas and the Politics of Space in American Cinema, 1968-1974" at the British Film Institute in London in 1999. Tony Fitzmaurice is College Lecturer at the Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin. As well as writing regularly on the arts, Tony Fitzmaurice is a member of the Film Institute of Ireland, and is currently preparing an anthology of Irish Film Studies readings.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations.
List of Contributors.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
1. 'Cinema and the City in History and Theory'. (Mark Shiel).
2. 'Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context'. (Tony Fitzmaurice).
Part I: Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles.
3. 'Bunker Hill. Hollywood's Dark Shadow'. (Mike Davis).
4. 'Film Mystery as Urban History. The Case of Chinatown'. (John Walton).
5. 'Return to Oz. The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as
Urban Renewal'. (Josh Stenger).
Part II. Urban Identities, Production and Exhibition.
6. 'Shamrock. Houston's Green Promise'. (James Hay).
7. 'From Workshop to Backlot. The Greater Philadelphia Film Office'. (Paul
Swann).
8. 'Cities: Real and Imagined'. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.
9. 'Emigrating to New York in 3-D: Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic
City'. (Mark Neumann).
10. 'Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theater,
Florida'. (Janna Jones).
11. 'Global Cities and the International Film Festival Economy'. (Julian
Stringer).
Part III: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis.
12. 'Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows through
Saigon'. (J. Paul Narkunas).
13. 'Cityscape: The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization of
Manila'. (Rolando B. Tolentino).
14. 'The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales, The Castle'. (Justine
Lloyd).
15. 'Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and
Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue'. (Gary Baines).
16. 'The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivalent City in Nigerian Video Films'.
(Obododimma Oha).
17. 'MontrÚal Between Strangeness, Home and Flow'. (Bill Marshall).
18. '(Mis-) Representing the Irish Urban Landscape'. (Kevin Rockett).
Part IV: Urban Reactions On-screen.
Idealism and Defeat.
19. 'Postwar Urban Redevelopment, the British Film Industry and The Way We
Live'. (Leo Enticknap).
20. 'Naked: Social Realism and the Urban Wasteland'. (Mike Mason).
Escape and Invasion.
21. 'Jacques Tati's Play Time as New Babylon'. (Laurent Marie).
22. 'Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones in French Banlieue
Films'. (Adrian Fielder).
Index.

Rezensionen

"...a welcome addition to the reading-lists of graduate andundergraduate courses in film studies and urbanstudies/sociology..." Urban Studies

".recommended to those who are exploring the excitingreciprocity between the city and the cinema..." Journal of UrbanTechnology

"...an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issueslinking cities, film, and globalization... intriguing, engaging,and informed..." Annals of the Association of AmericanGeographers

"Cinema and the City is an exceptional reader thatinterrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, andglobalization. With essays of exceptionally high quality this is anintriguing, engaging and informed work that should be accessible toan array of disciplines and students." Leo Zonn, University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill.

"Stitching together the complex and multiple intersectionsbetween film, cities, urban cultures and globalisation is no simpletask, as any number of very good single-authored works willdemonstrate. Despite these difficulties, Shiel and Fitzmaurice'sexcellent anthology rises to the occasion and, in the process,pushes film studies beyond its usual terrain of textual, audienceand production analyses to relocate the subject matter within urbansociology [...] As the relationship between film and the citycontinue to develop as a focus of critical inquiry, Cinema and theCity stands as one of the more accessible and innovativeentry-points into the issues" Shiel and Fitzmaurice, UrbanStudies.