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Cities and Cinema (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Cities and Cinema (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
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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 the contemporary relationship
between virtual reality and urban space. The book demonstrates the
importance of the filmic depiction of capitals for national cinemas
in the twentieth century and analyzes the transnational transfer of
cinematic images surrounding global cities in the twenty-first
century. Cities and Cinema covers the different facets of the
cinematic depiction of cities. It rehearses distinct methodologies
and offers a survey of the history of the cinematic city. The book
also deepens our understanding of tropes and narrative conventions
that shape films about urban settings and that reflect the
transformation of cities throughout the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. Beginning with a discussion of the Weimar "street film,"
it analyzes how the city film defined modernity. The book outlines
the sociological context and the aesthetic features of so-called
film noir, made in 1940s Hollywood and depicting Los Angeles. Paris
became the site for the development of auteur cinema, which
repeatedly depicts characters moving through the city. Tokyo took
up noir to signal modern crime. The volume delineates how filmic
genres, such as science fiction, comment on the present by
imagining future forms of urban living. After analyzing how cinema
captures the relationship between sexual identity and urban
anonymity, migration and urban space, and marginalized ethnic and
sexual identity in ghetto films, the book emphasizes transnational
dynamics and global cities in the twenty-first century. Its
conclusion points to the increasing virtual mediation of cities
with new media. Cities and Cinema offers a historical overview of
the development of films about cities and a theoretical approach to
the intersection of urban studies and film studies. This title is
designed as a textbook primarily for second-year undergraduate
students in Film/Media studies, Urban studies, as well as Geography
and Planning.
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