Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of
the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying
world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. "Noir Urbanisms" traces
the history of the modern city through its critical representations
in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and
architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic
representation--because the history of the modern city is
inseparable from the production and circulation of images--and
examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism.
Contributors explore dystopic images of the modern city in
Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United
States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban
dystopia in Fritz Lang's 1927 film "Metropolis"; 1960s modernist
architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and
1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar
Japan's sci-fi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema;
fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid
Johannesburg; and Delhi's out-of-control and media-saturated
urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges in "Noir Urbanisms"
is the unsettling and disorienting alchemy between dark
representations and the modern urban experience.
In addition to the editor, the contributors are David R.
Ambaras, James Donald, Ruben Gallo, Anton Kaes, Ranjani Mazumdar,
Jennifer Robinson, Mark Shiel, Ravi Sundaram, William M. Tsutsui,
and Li Zhang."
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