American City in the Cinema

Informationen zum Autor James A. Clapp Klappentext The American city and the American movie industry grew up together in the early decades of the twentieth century, making film an ideal medium through which to better understand urban life Zusammenfassung The American city and the American movie industry grew up together in the early decades of the twentieth century, making film an ideal medium through which to better understand urban life Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1The American City in the Cinema: An Introduction 2The Urban Medium 3Streets of Gold: Immigrants in the City and the Cinema 4The Small Town in a Metropolitan World 5How Ya Gonna Keep'em Down on the Farm? 6Suburbia and the American Dream 7Growing Up Urban: The City, the Cinema, and American Youth 8Family Values, City Ways 9Politics, the City, and the Cinema 10Mean Streets and Cities of Night 11"Are You Talking to Me?": New York and the Cinema of Urban Alienation 12Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the City and the Cinema 13The Urban Woman: Labor, Liberation, and Love in the Cinematic City 14City Work 15Nature, Technophobia, and the Cinema of the Urban Future 16The City as Cinema References Film List Name Index Subject Index

Product details

• Authors: James A. Clapp, Clapp James A.
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2013
• EAN: 9781412851480
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-5148-0
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres