Modernity and metropolis
Subtitle: writing, film, and urban formations
By: Peter Brooker.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Cities and towns in literature.; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Beginnings in Endings 1; title: Modernity and metropolis 1; title: Reflexivity 11; title: Community 16; title: A reflexive aesthetic 23; title: 1 American Modernists in Modern London 30; title: Ezra Pound: Vortex South Kensington 31; title: Iris Barry: life and contacts 38; title: T.S. Eliot: between lives 45; title: 2 Modernism Deferred: Harlem Montage 55; title: Blues on 1814 N. Street, NW Washington 55; title: Renaissance jazz 57; title: Modernisms: Langston Hughes and Melvin B. Tolson 65; title: 3 Inside Ethnicity: Suburban Outlooks 75; title: Black Britishness 75; title: A little identity crisis: Hanif Kureishi 78; title: Real magic: Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Bernadine Evaristo 86; title: 4 Re-imagining London 96; title: Vortex Spitalfields: lain Sinclair and Syed Manzarul Islam 97; title: The problem of London: Patrick Keiller 105; title: Drifting, disappearing: lain Sinclair and Rachel Lichtenstein 109; title: Untold stories: Janet Cardiff 115; title: 5 'Hymn to the Great People's Republic of Brooklyn' 120; title: Place and identity 122; title: Paul Auster: time for stories 127; title: Dialogic community: Paul Auster and Wayne Wang 132; title: 6 'Witness to my times': Sarah Schulman and the; title: Lower East Side 141; title: Neighbourhoods 141; title: Fictions of lesbian community 145; title: The power of straight thinking 153; title: UnAmerican activity 157; title: 7 In the Matrix: East West Encounters 162; title: Turning the globe 162; title: 'The street finds its own use for things': Edward Yang 168; title: and William Gibson; title: Starting over: Wong Kar-Wai and Lawrence Chua. 179; title: Coda: Postmetropolis and the Art of Fabrication 186; title: Simcity and the shanty town 189; title: 'A poor man is like a dog'. Latife Tekin and John Berger 192.