Cinematic urbanism : a history of the modern from reel to real
AlSayyad, Nezar
Cinematic urbanism : a history of the modern from reel to real - New York Routledge 2006 - xiii,256p.
CONTENTS
About the author ix
Preface xi
Introduction: the cinematic city and the quest for the modern 1
1.Industrial modernity: the flaneur and the tramp in the early twentieth century city 19
2. Urbanizing modernity: the traditional cinematic small town 45
3.Orwellian modernity: utopia/dystopia and the city of the future past 71
4. Cynical modernity, or the modernity of cynicism 97
5. From postmodern condition to cinematic city 123
6. Voyeuristic modernity: the lens, the screen and the city 147
7. The modernity of the sophisticate and the misfit: the city through different eyes 169
8. An alternative modernity: race, ethnicity and the urban experience 189
9. Exurban postmodernity: utopia, simulacra and hyper-reality 211
Epilogue 237
Illustration credits and sources 241
Selected bibliography 247
Index 249
9780415700498
307.76 / ALS
Cinematic urbanism : a history of the modern from reel to real - New York Routledge 2006 - xiii,256p.
CONTENTS
About the author ix
Preface xi
Introduction: the cinematic city and the quest for the modern 1
1.Industrial modernity: the flaneur and the tramp in the early twentieth century city 19
2. Urbanizing modernity: the traditional cinematic small town 45
3.Orwellian modernity: utopia/dystopia and the city of the future past 71
4. Cynical modernity, or the modernity of cynicism 97
5. From postmodern condition to cinematic city 123
6. Voyeuristic modernity: the lens, the screen and the city 147
7. The modernity of the sophisticate and the misfit: the city through different eyes 169
8. An alternative modernity: race, ethnicity and the urban experience 189
9. Exurban postmodernity: utopia, simulacra and hyper-reality 211
Epilogue 237
Illustration credits and sources 241
Selected bibliography 247
Index 249
9780415700498
307.76 / ALS