Description
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space. The book demonstrates the importance of the filmic depiction of capitals for national cinemas in the twentieth century and analyzes the transnational transfer of cinematic images surrounding global cities in the twenty-first century.
Cities and Cinema covers the different facets of the cinematic depiction of cities. It rehearses distinct methodologies and offers a survey of the history of the cinematic city. The book also deepens our understanding of tropes and narrative conventions that shape films about urban settings and that reflect the transformation of cities throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a discussion of the Weimar street film, it analyzes how the city film defined modernit
Table of Contents
List of figures. Acknowledgments for the first edition. Acknowledgments for the second and revised edition.
Introduction.
Part I. 1 Modernity and the city film: Berlin. 2 The dark city and film noir: Los Angeles. 3 Mobility in the city of love: Paris.
Part II. 4 City film industry: Hong Kong. 5 The city in ruins and the divided city. 6 Utopia and dystopia: fantastic and virtual cities.
Part III. 7 Ghetto film. 8 The queer city. 9 Cities in global cinema.
Conclusion.
Bibliography. Filmography. Index.
