Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond
Subtitle: representations of urban complexity in literature and film
By: Jens Martin Gurr, Wilfried Raussert (eds.).
Series: Inter-American studies = -- Estudios interamericanos -- v. 4
Publisher: Bilingual Press/ Editorial Bilingüe
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tempe, AZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781931010825; 9783868213249
Subjects: Inner cities in literature; City and town life in literature; History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; Fiction; American fiction; City and town life in motion pictures; Public space in literature; Cities and towns in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jens Martin Gurr, Wilfried Raussert; title: The literary representation of urban complexity and the problem of simultaneity: a sketchy inventory of strategies / Jens Martin Gurr; title: Literary imaginaries of urban complexity. Cracks in the urban utopia: the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 in Thomas Pynchon's Against the day / Utku Mohultay; title: Paul Auster's In the country of last things: a journey into a thousand heterotopias and flows of becoming / Hattice Bay; title: The provincial metropolis: the function of the urban as dynamic agency in Paul Auster's The Brooklyn follies / Bianca Brinkmann, Marcel Thoene; title: Performing New York, narrating urban complexity: E. L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley / Stefanie Weymann; title: The transcultural novel and the urban complexity of Los Angeles: narrative transculturation and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange / Melanie U. Pooch; title: Global cities and cosmopolitanism re-visited: inter-American mobility in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange / Wilfried Raussert; title: Spaces of violence: the construction of the cityscape in Lyonel Trouillot's fiction / Julia Borst; title: The city from afar: representations of urbanity in recent Indian American literature / Christina Seeliger; title: Psychogeography and (in)sanity: walking London, New York, and Dubai with will self / Marcus Hartner; title: Simultaneous narratives: re-storing Jewish American memory in Berlin / Joshua Parker; title: Entractes: intermedial explorations of urban complexity. Urban identity in a state of flux: strategies of representing simultaneity, chaos, and complexity in extremely loud & incredibly close / Berit Michel; title: Deep gutters and monolithic blocks: representations of urban complexity in Eric Drooker's graphic art / Frank Erik Pointner; title: Conflicting imaginaries of urban socio-cultural complexity: diversity and division in contemporary U.S.-American cultural production / Christoph Schaub; title: Celluloid complexcities. Berlin, a mazing metropolis: representations in films of the Weimar Republic / Betsy Van Schlun; title: "Architectural jungle" or the "sum of its people"? policing post-war urban space in Anthony Mann's Side street (1950) / Bond Love; title: The cinematic city: the point of arrival as a clash of spaces in the films Midnight cowboy, Great expectations, and Day night day night / Miriam Brandel ... [et al.]; title: Mexico City: public and private spaces in four female filmmakers / Graciela Martinez-Zalce; title: Megacities of fear: spaces of transgression in Cidade de deus, Amores perros, and Crash / Josef Raab.