Cinema and the city [[electronic resource] ] : film and urban societies in a global context / / edited by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144117603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2001
• ISBN: 1-4443-9973-X; 1-281-84073-4; 9786611840730; 0-470-71294-5; 0-470-71269-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Collana: Studies in urban and social change
• Altri autori (Persone): ShielMark; FitzmauriceTony <1953->
• Disciplina: 791.43; 791.43621732
• Soggetti: Cities and towns in motion pictures; Motion pictures - Social aspects; City and town life; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CINEMA AND THE CITY: FILM AND URBAN SOCIETIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT; Contents; List of Illustrations; Illustrations Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; 1 Cinema and the City in History and Theory; 2 Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context; Part 1: Postmodern Mediation of the City: Los Angeles; 3 Bunker Hill: Hollywood's Dark Shadow; 4 Film Mystery as Urban History: The Case of Chinatown; 5 Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal; Part 2: Urban Identities, Production, and Exhibitionist*; 6 Shamrock: Houston's Green Promise 7 From Workshop to Backlog: The Greater Philadelphia Film Office; 8 Cities: Real and Imagined; 9 Emigrating to New York in 3-D: Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic City; 10 Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theater, Florida; 11 Global Cities and the International Film Festival ; Economy; Part 3: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis; 12 Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows Through Saigon; 13 Cityscape: The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization of Manila; 14 The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales, The Castle15 Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue; 16 The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivalent City in Nigerian Video Films; 17 Montréal Between Strangeness, Home, and Flow; 18 (Mis-)Representing the Irish Urban Landscape; Part 4: Urban Reactions on Screen; Idealism and Defeat; Escape and Invasion; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.