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OverviewThe city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Europe and the United States since the early twentieth century. Peter Jelavich, for example, links the suppression of the creative, liberal Weimar Berlin in the 1931 film Berlin Alexanderplatz to the rise of the Nazi regime and the end of one of the great eras of modernist experimentation in German visual culture; Jessie Labov considers Kieslowski's treatment of the Warsaw housing blok in Dekalog in terms of Solidarity's strategy of resisting totalitarianism in 1980s Poland; Allan Siegel examines the motif of the city in a broad range of American and international cinema to demonstrate how film and society since the 1960s have been driven by the fading of mass political radicalism and the triumph of privatization and capital; Paula Massood uses the socially illuminating theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to examine the representation of the ghetto and urban underclass in recent African-American films such as Menace II Society; and Matthew Gandy examines the focus on disease in Todd Haynes's [Safe] as a metaphor for social and spatial breakdown in contemporary Los Angeles. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Shiel , Tony Fitzmaurice , Allan Siegel , Carsten StrathausenPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.864kg ISBN: 9781859846902ISBN 10: 1859846904 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 17 March 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9781859844762 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsA wonderfully fresh and kaleidoscopic examination of the strange alchemy between celluloid and asphalt. --Mike Davis A wonderfully fresh and kaleidoscopic examination of the strange alchemy between celluloid and asphalt.--Mike Davis Author InformationMark Shiel is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College, London. Tony Fitzmaurice is College Lecturer in Film Studies at the Centre for Film Studies/UCD School of Film, University College Dublin. Matthew Gandy teaches geography at University College London and has published widely on urban and environmental issues. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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