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OverviewTheories of urban space have become the focus of a great deal of work by scholars in cultural geography, urban studies and critical theory. This volume contributes to that debate by analysing the relationship between theories of urban space and literary and visual representations of the city – an emergent area of confluence in literary, film and cultural studies. The contributors address themes such as visual culture and spectacle; class and capital; community and public space; and nation, diaspora and belonging. Cities covered include New York, Chicago, Jerusalem, Paris, London, Birmingham and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Artists and writers discussed include Piet Mondrian, Nella Larsen, Rudolph Fisher, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Larsen, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Paul Auster and Wayne Wang. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maria Balshaw , Liam KennedyPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780745313498ISBN 10: 0745313493 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 20 December 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors Maria Balshaw and Liam Kennedy, Introduction Part One: SPACE AND VISION 1. Douglas Tallack, City Sights: Mapping and Representing New York City 2. Richard Ings, A Tale of Two Cities: Urban Text and Image in The Sweet Flypaper of Life 3. Pascal Pinck, From the Sofa to the Crime Scene: Skycam, Local News and the Televisual City Part Two: SPACES OF DIFFERENCE 4. Al Deakin, Fear and Sympathy: Charles Dickens and Urban (Dis) Ability 5. Maria Balshaw, Elegies to Harlem: Looking For Langston and Jazz 6. Peter Brooker, The Brooklyn Cigar Co. as Dialogic Public Sphere: Community and 7. Postmodernism in Paul Auster and Wayne Wang’s Smoke and Blue in the Face 8. Liam Kennedy, Paranoid Spatiality: Postmodern Urbanism and American Cinema Part Three: (POST) NATIONAL SPACES 9. Myrto Konstantarakos, The film de banlieue: Renegotiating the Representation of Urban Space 10. Stephen Shapiro, ‘Whose Fucking Park? Our Fucking Park!’: Bohemian Brumaires (Paris 1848/East Village 1988), Gentrification, and the Representation of AIDS 11. Gargi Bhattacharyya, Metropolis of the Midlands 12. John Phillips, Singapore Soil: A Completely Different Organisation of SpaceReviewsAuthor InformationMaria Balshaw CBE is the first female director of the Tate art museums and galleries and the former director of the Whitworth and Manchester City Art Gallery. She is the author of Looking for Harlem (Pluto Press, 2000) and is the co-editor of Urban Representations (Pluto Press 1999). Liam Kennedy is Emeritus Professor at the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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