Cinema and the City Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context

by Shiel, Mark; Fitzmaurice, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780631222446
• ISBN10: 0631222448
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-25
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Series Editors' Preface

Preface

'Cinema and the City in History and Theory'

'Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context'

Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles

'Bunker Hill. Hollywood's Dark Shadow'

'Film Mystery as Urban History. The Case of Chinatown'

'Return to Oz. The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal'

Urban Identities, Production and Exhibition

'Shamrock. Houston's Green Promise'

'From Workshop to Backlot. The Greater Philadelphia Film Office'

'Cities: Real and Imagined'

'Emigrating to New York in 3-D: Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic City'

'Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theater, Florida'

'Global Cities and the International Film Festival Economy'

Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis

'Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows through Saigon'

'Cityscape: The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization of Manila'

'The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales, The Castle'

'Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue'

'The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivalent City in Nigerian Video Films'

'MontrUal Between Strangeness, Home and Flow'

'(Mis-) Representing the Irish Urban Landscape'

Urban Reactions On-screen.Idealism and Defeat

'Postwar Urban Redevelopment, the British Film Industry and The Way We Live'

'Naked: Social Realism and the Urban Wasteland'

Escape and Invasion

'Jacques Tati's Play Time as New Babylon'

'Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones in French Banlieue Films'

Index

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