This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles is configured through the lens of film noir.
This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles is configured through the lens of film noir.
Dr Sean Maher is Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. He has been a been Visiting Scholar at UCLA Film and Television Archives. He is an Australian representative on the Steering Committee for the Filmmakers Research Network (FRN), a British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant investigating filmmaking-based research. As a writer and director, he has produced essay films on Los Angeles and film noir as part of investigating creative practice-based research (Maher, S. and Kerrigan S, (2016) Noirscapes: Using the screen to write Los Angeles noir as urban historiography in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: Approaching the Metropolis 1. From Modern Metropolis to Postmodern Urbanism 2. Hard-Boiled Boulevards Part II: Los Angeles - Between the Screen and the Streets 3.City of Silhouettes 4. Noirscapes of Motion 5. The Neo Noirscape of Nostalgia 6. Through a Glass Darkly: Global Los Angeles and Postmodern Noirscapes at the End of the Twentieth Century
Introduction Part I: Approaching the Metropolis 1. From Modern Metropolis to Postmodern Urbanism 2. Hard-Boiled Boulevards Part II: Los Angeles - Between the Screen and the Streets 3.City of Silhouettes 4. Noirscapes of Motion 5. The Neo Noirscape of Nostalgia 6. Through a Glass Darkly: Global Los Angeles and Postmodern Noirscapes at the End of the Twentieth Century
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