{"product_id":"london-eyes-reflections-in-text-and-image-9781845454074","title":"London Eyes: Reflections in Text and Image","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tLondon incessantly generates and incites cultural responses, pre-eminently in the interconnected domains of literature and film. This book demonstrates that those responses have been sustained as vital experiments and engagements in configuring the city and its inhabitants. Including essays by prominent cultural, literary and film historians this volume forms an original and incisive contribution to ongoing debates about the city’s intricate cultural history and its construction through both language and image, as a crucial site of identity, desire, exile and displacement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"London Eyes provides paths through the city, chancing upon those stories that ultimately have the potential to change London, to see it with new eyes, casting new shadows and seeing new stories open up at many turns. This collection has at its heart a joyous fascination with the city and the texts, images and films that have contributed to our ideas about London. It was a wonderful opportunity to stumble upon some new panoramas.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFilm Philosophy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGail Cunningham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDON ON THE PAGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGail Cunningham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGail Cunningham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e John Thomson’s London in Photographs\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLindsay Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Displacing Urban Man: Sherlock Holmes’s London\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAndrew Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Aestheticism ‘At Home’ in London: A. Mary F. Robinson and the Aesthetic Sect\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAna Parejo Vadillo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘There’s more space within than without’: Agoraphobia and the Bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDeborah Parsons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e The Aesthetics of Walking: Literary and Filmic Representations of London in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRoger Webster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: THE MODERN AGE: LONDON IN IMAGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eStephen Barber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e An Indescribable Blur: Film and London\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eStephen Barber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Shutting Out the City: Reflections on the Portrayal of London in 1960s Auteur Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHugo Frey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e London circa Sixty-six: The Map of the Film\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRoland-François Lack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Representations of Dystopia and the Film City of London\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSara de Freitas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Poodle Queens and the Great Dark Lad: Class, Masculinity and Suburban Trajectories in Gay London\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMartin Dines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Coda: What Colour Is Time? Derek Jarman’s Soho\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJeremy Reed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tFilmography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042974695767,"sku":"9781845454074","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/london-eyes-reflections-in-text-and-image-9781845454074","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}