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Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash.
LIBRA PN1995.9.F54 N68 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- Cities and towns in motion pictures.
- City and town life in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: imaging the modern city, darkly / Gyan Prakash
- Modernism and urban dystopia. The phantasm of the Apocalypse : Metropolis and Weimar modernity / Anton Kaes
- Sounds like hell : beyond dystopian noise / James Donald
- Tlatelolco : Mexico City's urban dystopia / Ruben Gallo
- The aesthetics of the dark city. A regional geography of film noir : urban dystopias on- and off-screen / Mark Shiel
- Oh no, there goes Tokyo : recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui
- Postsocialist urban dystopia? / Li Zhang
- Friction, collision, and the grotesque : the dystopic fragments of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar
- Imaging urban crisis. Topographies of distress : Tokyo, c. 1930 / David Ambaras
- Living in dystopia : past, present and future in contemporary African cities / Jennifer Robinson
- Imaging urban breakdown : Delhi in the 1990s / Ravi Sundaram.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691146430
- 0691146438
- 9780691146447
- 0691146446
- OCLC:
- 502304542
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