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Author:   David Clarke
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780415127455

ISBN 10:   0415127459
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   20 March 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Plates, List of Contributors, Introduction: Previewing the Cinematic City, 1. Chinese Boxes and Russian Dolls: Tracking the Elusive Cinematic City, 2. City Views: The Voyage of Film Images, 3. Of Plans and Planners: Documentary Film and the Challenge of the Urban Future, 1935–52, 4. Something More than Night: Tales of the Noir City, 5. Urban Confidential: The Lurid City of the 1950s, 6. Cinécities in the Sixties, 7. From Ramble City to the Screening of the Eye: Blade Runner, Death and Symbolic Exchange, 8. ‘The People in Parentheses’: Space Under Pressure in the Postmodern City, 9. Mainly in Cities and at Night: Some Notes on Cities and Film, 10. Piecing Together What Remains of the Cinematic City, 11. Maps, Movies, Musics and Memory, Index

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To better understand how the city and film have shaped each other we will need ... the historical and theoretical perspectives of the best contributions in Clarke's anthology. <br>- afterimage <br>... this collection provides a thoughtful and at times brilliant consideration of cinema's portrayal of modern urban life. <br>- Urban Mission <br>

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David Clarke is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Leeds.

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