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Modernity and metropolis : writing, film, and urban formations / Peter Brooker.
Van Pelt Library PN56.C55 B76 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooker, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Cities and towns in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 230 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
- Summary:
- A study of metropolitan identities in literature and film.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Beginnings in Endings 1
- Modernity and metropolis 1
- Reflexivity 11
- Community 16
- A reflexive aesthetic 23
- 1 American Modernists in Modern London 30
- Ezra Pound: Vortex South Kensington 31
- Iris Barry: life and contacts 38
- T.S. Eliot: between lives 45
- 2 Modernism Deferred: Harlem Montage 55
- Blues on 1814 N. Street, NW Washington 55
- Renaissance jazz 57
- Modernisms: Langston Hughes and Melvin B. Tolson 65
- 3 Inside Ethnicity: Suburban Outlooks 75
- Black Britishness 75
- A little identity crisis: Hanif Kureishi 78
- Real magic: Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Bernadine Evaristo 86
- 4 Re-imagining London 96
- Vortex Spitalfields: Iain Sinclair and Syed Manzarul Islam 97
- The problem of London: Patrick Keiller 105
- Drifting, disappearing: Iain Sinclair and Rachel Lichtenstein 109
- Untold stories: Janet Cardiff 115
- 5 'Hymn to the Great People's Republic of Brooklyn' 120
- Place and identity 122
- Paul Auster: time for stories 127
- Dialogic community: Paul Auster and Wayne Wang 132
- 6 'Witness to my times': Sarah Schulman and the Lower East Side 141
- Neighbourhoods 141
- Fictions of lesbian community 145
- The power of straight thinking 153
- UnAmerican activity 157
- 7 In the Matrix: East West Encounters 162
- Turning the globe 162
- 'The street finds its own use for things': Edward Yang and William Gibson 168
- Starting over: Wong Kar-Wai and Lawrence Chua 179
- Coda: Postmetropolis and the Art of Fabrication 186
- Simcity and the shanty town 189
- 'A poor man is like a dog'. Latife Tekin and John Berger 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0333801687
- OCLC:
- 48884772
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