附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Uncanny spaces : the city in Ruttmann and Vertov / Carsten Strathausen -- Ruttmann's Berlin : filming in a "hollow space" / Martin Gaughan -- The city vanishes : Piel Jutzi's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Peter Jelavich -- "Cut out from last year's moldering newspapers" : Bruno Schulz and the Brothers Quay on The street of crocodiles / Tyrus Miller -- Architorture : Jan Svankmajer and surrealist film / David Sorfa -- Kieślowski's Dekalog, everyday life and the art of solidarity / Jessie Labov -- After the sixties : changing paradigms in the representation of urban space / Allan Siegel -- A nostalgia for modernity : New york, Los Angeles and American cinema in the 1970s / Mark Shiel -- The affective city : urban black bodies and milieu in Menace II society and Pulp fiction / Paul Gormley -- City spaces and city times : Bakhtin's chronotope and recent African-American film / Paula J. Massood -- Against the Los Angeles symbolic : unpacking the racialized discourse of the automobile in 1980s and 1990s cinema / Jude Davies -- Allergy and allegory in Todd Haynes' [Safe] / Matthew Gandy -- The Deleuzean experience of Cronenberg's Crash and Wenders' The end of violence / Darrell Varga -- The city reborn : cinema a the turn of the century / John Orr.
摘要:In this provocative collection of essays, a diverse selection of films are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Europe and the United States since the early 20th century.