Noir urbanisms
Subtitle: dystopic images of the modern city
By: edited by Gyan Prakash.
Contributors: Prakash, Gyan.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780691146430; 9780691146447
Subjects: Film noir -- History and criticism; Cities and towns in motion pictures; City and town life in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: imaging the modern city, darkly / Gyan Prakash; title: Modernism and urban dystopia. The phantasm of the Apocalypse : Metropolis and Weimar modernity / Anton Kaes; title: Sounds like hell : dystopian urban noise / James Donald; title: Tlatelolco : Mexico City's urban dystopia / Ruben Gallo; title: The aesthetics of the dark city. A regional geography of film noir : urban cystopias on- and off-screen / Mark Shiel; title: Oh no, there goes Tokyo : recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui; title: Postsocialist urban dystopia? / Li Zhang; title: Friction, collision, and the grotesque : the dystopic fragments of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar; title: Imaging urban crisis. Topographies of distress : Tokyo, c. 1930 / David Ambaras; title: Living in dystopia : past, present and future in contemporary African cities / Jennifer Robinson; title: Imaging urban breakdown : Delhi in the 1990s / Ravi Sundaram.