Mass Media and the postmodern urban experience. From Metropolis to Blade Runner; from cinema to virtual reality
Journal: Culture & History Digital Journal
Year: 2020

Since their inception in the XIX Century, mass media have been crucial in shaping the image of the urban environment on our collective subconscious. In the early 20th Century, newspapers and magazines bustled with exacerbated but fascinating images of the city of the future, which appeared as hyperbolic portrayals of the perception that the contemporary citizen had of his own effervescing modern environment. Cinema soon joined this process, as a privileged, mechanical eye that could record, anal