Cities and Cinema

List of contents

List of figures. Acknowledgments for the first edition. Acknowledgments for the second and revised edition.
Introduction.
Part I. 1 Modernity and the city film: Berlin. 2 The dark city and film noir: Los Angeles. 3 Mobility in the city of love: Paris.
Part II. 4 City film industry: Hong Kong. 5 The city in ruins and the divided city. 6 Utopia and dystopia: fantastic and virtual cities.
Part III. 7 Ghetto film. 8 The queer city. 9 Cities in global cinema.
Conclusion.
Bibliography. Filmography. Index.

About the author

Barbara Mennel is the Rothman Chair and Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida. She is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and German Studies in the Departments of English and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Her recent books include Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema (2019) and Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys (2012).

Summary

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Mennel, Barbara (University of Florida Mennel, Mennel Barbara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138498440
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49844-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City; Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Films, cinema, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life