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OverviewThe city is the most distinctive product of modernity, but it is also its most unruly. How do we approach a culture that is both physical and imaginary, that has moulded concrete and asphalt as well as movies and novels? Cityscapes provides an innovative approach to the modern city. By arguing that the most distinctive aspect of urban life is the varied, and often conflicting, rhythms of the city, this book sets out to find ways of registering the dynamic complexity of the city. Using a range of cultural forms Cityscapes spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, finding vivid examples of urban movements in Edgar Allan Poe's London, in Parisian departments stores, in colonial and anti-colonial Algiers, in the North American cities of recent detective fiction, and in the virtual city of The Matrix. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ben HighmorePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Red Globe Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.305kg ISBN: 9780333929353ISBN 10: 0333929357 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 07 April 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction Methodology I: Culture, Cities and Legibility Street Scenes Circulation, Crowds, and Modernizing London City of Attractions Commodities, Shopping, and Consumer Choreography Colonial Spacing Control and Conflict in the Colonial and Neo-Colonial City Urban Noir Mobility and Movement in Detective Fiction Networks Communication, Information, and The Matrix Conclusion Methodology II: Rhythm-analysis and Urban Culture.Reviews'Cityscapes is itself complex and multilayered. The reader can re-enter it in different times and places to gain insights not only into the specific texts it discusses, but into ways of seeing the city. Highmore's attention to the power of dynamics of city spaces is particularly laudable...One of the best things about this book is that it examines how racialised, gendered and classed city spaces are configured and contested as well as represented and rhythmed.' - Susan Alice Fischer, Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London 'It is commendable though as a slim, engaging and thought-provoking text that rewards the trouble taken in considering its themes and arguments.' - Bryn Parry, Tourism and Cultural Change Author InformationBEN HIGHMORE is Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He is the author of Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Routledge 2002) and editor of The Everyday Life Reader (Routledge, 2002). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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