1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996205855603316

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK : , : Blackwell Publishers Ltd., , 2001

ISBN

9781444399738

144439973X

9781281840738

1281840734

9786611840730

6611840737

9780470712948

0470712945

9780470712696

0470712694

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in Urban and Social Change ; ; Volume 48

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Cities and towns in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Social aspects

City and town life

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 MontreĢal 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.