Cinematic urbanism : a history of the modern from reel to real

By:

AlSayyad, Nezar

Publication details: New York Routledge 2006Description: xiii,256pISBN:

9780415700498

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76 ALS

Contents:

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

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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

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