Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash.

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Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash.

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277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: imaging the modern city, darkly / Gyan Prakash -- Modernism and urban dystopia. The phantasm of the Apocalypse: Metropolis and Weimar modernity / Anton Kaes -- Sounds like hell: dystopian urban noise / James Donald -- Tlatelolco: Mexico City's urban dystopia / Ruben Gallo -- The aesthetics of the dark city. A regional geography of film noir: urban cystopias on- and off-screen / Mark Shiel -- Oh no, there goes Tokyo: recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- Postsocialist urban dystopia? / Li Zhang -- Friction, collision, and the grotesque: the dystopic fragments of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- Imaging urban crisis. Topographies of distress: Tokyo, c. 1930 / David Ambaras -- Living in dystopia: past, present and future in contemporary African cities / Jennifer Robinson -- Imaging urban breakdown: Delhi in the 1990s / Ravi Sundaram.

Summary:

This work traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representation and examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism.

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ISBN:

9780691146430 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0691146438 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780691146447 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0691146446 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781400836628 (ebk.)
140083662X
9786612692284 (ebk.)
6612692286

Subject:

Bibel Philemonbrief
Film noir History and criticism.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Films noirs Histoire et critique.
Villes au cinéma.
Vie urbaine au cinéma.
Film noir.
Stadt
Urbanität
Anti-Utopie
Stadt Motiv Film.
Film Motiv Stadt.
Film.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Prakash, Gyan, 1952-

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Location: Library main 269471
Call No.: BIB 201723
Status: Available

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