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

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.

List of Illustrations.List of Contributors.Series Editors' Preface.Preface.1. 'Cinema and the City in History and Theory'. (Mark Shiel).2. 'Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context'. (Tony Fitzmaurice).Part I: Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles.3. 'Bunker Hill. Hollywood's Dark Shadow'. (Mike Davis).4. 'Film Mystery as Urban History. The Case of Chinatown'. (John Walton).5. 'Return to Oz. The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal'. (Josh Stenger).Part II. Urban Identities, Production and Exhibition.6. 'Shamrock. Houston's Green Promise'. (James Hay).7. 'From Workshop to Backlot. The Greater Philadelphia Film Office'. (Paul Swann).8. 'Cities: Real and Imagined'. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.9. 'Emigrating to New York in 3-D: Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic City'. (Mark Neumann).10. 'Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theater, Florida'. (Janna Jones).11. 'Global Cities and the International Film Festival Economy'. (Julian Stringer).Part III: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis.12. 'Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows through Saigon'. (J. Paul Narkunas).13. 'Cityscape: The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization of Manila'. (Rolando B. Tolentino).14. 'The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales, The Castle'. (Justine Lloyd).15. 'Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue'. (Gary Baines).16. 'The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivalent City in Nigerian Video Films'. (Obododimma Oha).17. 'MontrÚal Between Strangeness, Home and Flow'. (Bill Marshall).18. '(Mis-) Representing the Irish Urban Landscape'. (Kevin Rockett).Part IV: Urban Reactions On-screen.Idealism and Defeat.19. 'Postwar Urban Redevelopment, the British Film Industry and The Way We Live'. (Leo Enticknap).20. 'Naked: Social Realism and the Urban Wasteland'. (Mike Mason).Escape and Invasion.21. 'Jacques Tati's Play Time as New Babylon'. (Laurent Marie).22. 'Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones in French Banlieue Films'. (Adrian Fielder).Index.