Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.

Description:

xxi, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in urban and social change

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cinema and the city in history and theory / Mark Shiel -- Film and urban societies in a global context / Tony Fitzmaurice -- Postmodern Mediations of the City : Los Angeles. Bunker Hill : Hollywood's dark shadow / Mike Davis -- Film mystery as urban history : the case of Chinatown / John Walton -- Return to Oz : The Hollywood redevelopment project, or film history as urban renewal / Josh Stenger -- Urban Identities, Production, and Exhibition. Shamrock : Houston's green promise / James Hay -- From workshop to backlot : the Greater Philadelphia Film Office / Paul Swann -- Cities : real and imagined / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- Emigrating to New York in 3-D : stereoscopic vision in IMAX's cinematic city / Mark Neumann -- Finding a place at the downtown picture palace : the Tampa Theater, Florida / Janna Jones -- Global cities and the international film festival economy / Julian Stringer -- Cinema and the Postcoloial Metropolis. Streetwalking in the cinema of the city : capital flows through Saigon / J. Paul Narkunas -- Cityscape : the capital infrastructuring and technologization of Manila / Rolando B. Tolentino -- The politics of dislocation : airport tales, The Castle / Justine Lloyd -- Representing the apartheid city : South African cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue / Gary Baines --The visual rhetoric of the ambivalent city in Nigerian video films / Obododimma Oha -- Montréal between strangeness, home, and flow / Bill Marshall -- (Mis- )representing the Irish urban landscape / Kevin Rockett -- Urban Reactions on Screen. Idealism and defeat : Postwar urban redevelopment, the British film industry, and The way we live / Leo Enticknap ; Naked : social realism and the urban wasteland / Mike Mason -- Escape and invasion : Jacques Tati's Play time as new Babylon / Laurent Marie ; Poaching on public space: urban autonomous zones in French Banlieue films / Adrian Fielder.

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"--Publisher's website.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

063122243X (alk. paper)
9780631222439 (alk. paper)
0631222448 (pbk.)
9780631222446 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Motion pictures Social aspects.
City and town life.
Villes au cinéma.
Cinéma Aspect social.
Vie urbaine.
Film
Kino
Stadt
Urbanität
Filmkunst.
Stadscultuur.
Sociale aspecten.
Villes Au cinéma.
Cinéma et société.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Shiel, Mark.
Fitzmaurice, Tony, 1953-
Studies in urban and social change.

Film and urban societies in a global context

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216054
Call No.: PN1995.9.C513 C5 2001
Status: Available