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Zusatztext "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." · Film Philosophy Informationen zum Autor Gail Cunningham is Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. Her recent publications include Houses in Between (CUP, 2004) Anna Lombard (Birmingham University Press, 2002) and He-Notes: Reconstructing Masculinity (Palgrave, 2000). Stephen Barber is a Professor of Media Arts at Kingston University. His most recent publications include The Vanishing Map (Berg, 2006), Hijikata (Creation, 2006) and The Art of Destruction (Creation 2004). He has been awarded international prizes and awards for his work by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Getty Program, the Ford Foundation, the DAAD Berlin Artists and Writers Programme, the Annenberg Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, the British Academy, the Daiwa Foundation, the Saison Foundation, and the London Arts Board. Klappentext London 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. Zusammenfassung London 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Gail Cunningham PART I: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDON ON THE PAGE Introduction Gail Cunningham Chapter 1. London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier Gail Cunningham Chapter 2. John Thomson's London in Photographs Lindsay Smith Chapter 3. Displacing Urban Man: Sherlock Holmes's London Andrew Smith Chapter 4. Aestheticism 'At Home' in London: A. Mary F. Robinson and the Aesthetic Sect Ana Parejo Vadillo Chapter 5. 'There's more space within than without': Agoraphobia and the Bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage Deborah Parsons Chapter 6. The Aesthetics of Walking: Literary and Filmic Representations of London in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent Roger Webster PART II: THE MODERN AGE: LONDON IN IMAGE Introduction Stephen Barber Chapter 7. An Indescribable Blur: Film and London Stephen Barber Chapter 8. Shutting Out the City: Reflections on the...
