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The Cinema of Urban Crisis - Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City (Paperback, 0)
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The Cinema of Urban Crisis - Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City (Paperback, 0)
Series: Cities and Cultures
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In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe
faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged
established principles of planning, economics and urban theory. At
the same time, film industries experienced a parallel process of
transition, the effects of which rippled through the aesthetic and
narrative form of the decade's cinema. The Cinema of Urban Crisis
traces a new path through the cinematic legacy of the 1970s by
drawing together these intertwined histories of urban and cultural
change. Bringing issues of space and place to the fore, the book
unpacks the geographical and spatial dynamics of film movements
from the New Hollywood to the New German Cinema, showing how the
crisis of the seventies and the emerging 'postindustrial' economy
brought film and the city together in new configurations. Chapters
cover a range of cities on both sides of the Atlantic, from New
York, Philadelphia and San Francisco to London, Paris and Berlin.
Integrating analysis of film industries and production practices
with detailed considerations of individual texts, the book offers
strikingly original close analyses of a wide range of films, from
New Hollywood (The Conversation, The King of Marvin Gardens, Rocky)
to European art cinema (Alice in the Cities, The Passenger, Tout va
Bien) and popular international genres such as the political
thriller and the crime film. Focusing on the aesthetic and
representational strategies of these films, the book argues that
the decade's cinema engaged with - and helped to shape - the
passage from the 'urban crisis' of the late sixties to the
neoliberal 'urban renaissance' of the early eighties. Splicing
ideas from film studies with urban geography and architectural
history, the book offers a fresh perspective on a rich period of
film history and opens up new directions for critical engagement
between film and urban studies.
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