The City in American Cinema
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-78831-318-6 (ISBN)
blockbusters to indie cinema, it considers the complex, evolving relationship between moving image cultures and the spaces, policies, and politics of US cities from New York, Los Angeles, and Boston to Detroit, Oakland, and Baltimore. The contributors address questions of narrative, genre, and style alongside the urban contexts of production, exhibition, and reception, discussing films including The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973),
Cruising (1980), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), King of New York (1990), Inception (2010), Frances Ha (2012), Fruitvale Station (2013), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Doctor Strange (2016).
Johan Andersson is Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography at King's College London, UK. He is the co-editor, with Lawrence Webb, of Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media (2016), the co-author, with Gallent and Marco Bianconi, of Planning on the Edge (2006) and has published articles in journals such as Antipode, IJURR, Society and Space and Urban Studies. Lawrence Webb is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City (2014). He is co-editor, with Johan Andersson, of Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media (2016), and with Joshua Gleich, Hollywood On Location: An Industry History (2018).
American Cinema and Urban Change: Industry, Genre, and Politics from Nixon to Trump, Johan Andersson, King’s College London, UK and Lawrence Webb, University of Sussex, UK
Part One: Film Production and the Postindustrial Turn
Daniel Bell, Post-industrial Society and Los Angeles Cinema c.a 1967–72, Mark Shiel, King’s College London, UK
Made in New York: Film Production, the City Government, and Public Protest in the Koch Era, Lawrence Webb, University of Sussex, UK
You Don’t Have to Call Us Home, but Please Stay Here: The City Film Commission, Nathan Koob, Oakland University, USA
The Boston Movie Boom, Carlo Rotella, Boston College, USA
Part Two Postindustrial Narratives and Aesthetics
The New Boston and the Grip of Tradition: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Brink’s Job (1978), and The Verdict (1982), Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati, USA
Undead Detroit: Crisis Capitalism and Urban Ruin, Camilla Fojas, University of Virginia, USA
The Flexible Urban Imaginary: Postindustrial Cities in Inception, The Adjustment Bureau, and Doctor Strange, Nick Jones, University of York, UK
A Networked Life: Representations of Connectivity and Structural Inequalities in Fruitvale Station, Amy Corbin, Muhlenberg College, USA
Part Three Cinema and Gentrification 9 For Whom Are the Movies?: The Landscape of Movie Exhibition in the Gentrified City, Brendan Kredell, Oakland University, USA
Ebbets Field and Other Monuments: Outer Borough Neighborhoods and Revanchism in 1990s Cinema, Erica Stein, Vassar College, USA
Gentrification by Genre: Desperately Seeking Susan and the 1980s Screwball, Johan Andersson, King’s College London, UK
Frances Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Gender, Crisis, and the Creative City in Frances Ha and The Giant Mechanical Man, Martha Shearer, King’s College London, UK
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.07.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 28 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 726 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78831-318-6 / 1788313186 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78831-318-6 / 9781788313186 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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