Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city /
Prakash, Gyan,1952-
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: imaging the modern city, darkly / Gyan Prakash -- Modernism and urban dystopia. The phantasm of the Apocalypse : Metropolis and Weimar modernity / Anton Kaes -- Sounds like hell : beyond dystopian noise / James Donald -- Tlatelolco : Mexico City's urban dystopia / Ruben Gallo -- The aesthetics of the dark city. A regional geography of film noir : urban dystopias on- and off-screen / Mark Shiel -- Oh no, there goes Tokyo : recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- Postsocialist urban dystopia? / Li Zhang -- Friction, collision, and the grotesque : the dystopic fragments of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- Imaging urban crisis. Topographies of distress : Tokyo, c. 1930 / David Ambaras -- Living in dystopia : past, present and future in contemporary African cities / Jennifer Robinson -- Imaging urban breakdown : Delhi in the 1990s / Ravi Sundaram.
Film noir
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.