Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context

Copyright © 2001 Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context

Editor(s): Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice

Published Online: 27 MAY 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631222439

Online ISBN: 9780470712948

DOI: 10.1002/9780470712948

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This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xx)

    1. Chapter 1

      Cinema and the City in History and Theory (pages 1–18)

      Mark Shiel

    1. Chapter 2

      Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (pages 19–30)

      Tony Fitzmaurice

  4. Part I: Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles

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      Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles (page 31)

    2. Chapter 3

      Bunker Hill: Hollywood's Dark Shadow (pages 33–45)

      Mike Davis

    3. Chapter 4

      Film Mystery as Urban History: The Case of Chinatown (pages 46–58)

      John Walton

    4. Chapter 5

      Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal (pages 59–72)

      Josh Stenger

  5. Part II: Urban Identities, Production, and Exhibition

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      Urban Identities, Production, and Exhibition (pages 73–74)

    2. Chapter 6

      Shamrock: Houston's Green Promise (pages 75–87)

      James Hay

    3. Chapter 7

      From Workshop to Backlot: The Greater Philadelphia Film Office (pages 88–98)

      Paul Swann

    4. Chapter 8

      Cities: Real and Imagined (pages 99–108)

      Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

    5. Chapter 9

      Emigrating to New York in 3-D: Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic City (pages 109–121)

      Mark Neumann

    6. Chapter 10

      Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theater, Florida (pages 122–133)

      Janna Jones

    7. Chapter 11

      Global Cities and the International Film Festival Economy (pages 134–144)

      Julian Stringer

  6. Part III: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis

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      Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis (pages 145–146)

    2. Chapter 12

      Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows Through Saigon (pages 147–157)

      J. Paul Narkunas

    3. Chapter 13

      Cityscape: The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization of Manila (pages 158–170)

      Rolando B. Tolentino

    4. Chapter 14

      The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales, The Castle (pages 171–184)

      Justine Lloyd

    5. Chapter 15

      Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue (pages 186–194)

      Gary Baines

    6. Chapter 16

      The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivalent City in Nigerian Video Films (pages 195–205)

      Obododimma Oha

    7. Chapter 17

      Montréal Between Strangeness, Home, and Flow (pages 206–216)

      Bill Marshall

    8. Chapter 18

      (Mis-)Representing the Irish Urban Landscape (pages 217–228)

      Kevin Rockett

  7. Part IV: Urban Reactions on Screen

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      Urban Reactions on Screen (pages 229–230)

  8. Part IV: Urban Reactions on Screen - Idealism and Defeat

    1. Chapter 19

      Postwar Urban Redevelopment, the British Film Industry, and The Way We Live (pages 233–243)

      Leo Enticknap

    2. Chapter 20

      Naked: Social Realism and the Urban Wasteland (pages 244–253)

      Mike Mason

  9. Part IV: Urban Reactions on Screen - Escape and Invasion

    1. Chapter 21

      Jacques Tati's Play Time as New Babylon (pages 254–269)

      Laurent Marie

    2. Chapter 22

      Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones in French Banlieue Films (pages 270–281)

      Adrian Fielder

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      Index (pages 282–297)

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