David Clarke (ed.)

The Cinematic City

Herausgeber: Clarke, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Cinematic City is an innovative and thought-provoking volume offering a wealth of insights into the cityscape, screenscape and the interconnections between the two.

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3llustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of films, genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field to offer an innovative insight into the interconnection of city and screenscapes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 190mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780415127462
• ISBN-10: 0415127467
• Artikelnr.: 22358280

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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