Barbara Mennel

Cities and Cinema (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351016186
• Artikelnr.: 56786971

Autorenporträt

Barbara Mennel is the Rothman Chair and Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida. She is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and German Studies in the Departments of English and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Her recent books include Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema (2019) and Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures. Acknowledgments for the first edition. Acknowledgments for
the second and revised edition.
Introduction.
Part I. 1 Modernity and the city film: Berlin. 2 The dark city and film
noir: Los Angeles. 3 Mobility in the city of love: Paris.
Part II. 4 City film industry: Hong Kong. 5 The city in ruins and the
divided city. 6 Utopia and dystopia: fantastic and virtual cities.
Part III. 7 Ghetto film. 8 The queer city. 9 Cities in global cinema.
Conclusion.
Bibliography. Filmography. Index.