TY  - GEN
AU  - AlSayyad, Nezar
TI  - Cinematic urbanism : a history of the modern from reel to real
SN  - 9780415700498
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  -  
N1  - 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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