Urban space and representation / edited by Maria Balshaw and Liam Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balshaw, Maria.

Kennedy, Liam, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Open spaces--United States.

Open spaces.

City and town life in literature.

Arts, American--20th century--Themes, motives.

Arts, American.

Arts, American--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

vi,201p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. ; London : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An innovative and interdisciplinary collection of new work on the forms and meanings of the modern city in literary, film and cultural studies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Photographs

1. Introduction: Urban Space and Representation

Space and Representation

Space and Vision

Spaces of Difference

( Post) National Spaces

Notes

2. City Sights: Mapping and Representing New York City

3. A Tale of Two Cities: Urban Text and Image in The Sweet Flypaper of Life

Photographic Territory

A Photographic Narrative

Photographic Space

Photographic Ambiguity

4. From the Sofa to the Crime Scene: Skycam, Local News and the Televisual City

Life Through the Tube

The Skycam

The News in Your Front Yard

5. Fear and Sympathy: Charles Dickens and Urban ( Dis) Ability

Physical Impairment and Disability

A Christmas Carol: Disability, Charity and the Domesticated Urban

The Old Curiosity Shop: Urban Ability

Conclusion

6. Elegies to Harlem: Looking for Langston and Jazz

Racialised Urbanity

An Urban Snapshot

Looking At or For? ?

Bitch or Dumpling Girl?

7. The Brooklyn Cigar Co. as Dialogic Public Sphere: Community and Postmodernism in Paul Auster and Wayne Wang's Smoke and Bl

Maps and Movement

A Time for Stories

Open Endings

8. Paranoid Spatiality: Postmodern Urbanism and American Cinema

Paranoid Spatiality

White Noise

Helter Skelter

The Distributed Panopticon

(Post) National Spaces

9. The film de banlieue: Renegotiating the Representation of Urban Space

The Banlieue and the Ghetto

Space on the Margins

Inside and Outside

Centre and Periphery

Filmography

10. ' Whose Fucking Park? Our Fucking Park!': Bohemian Brumaires ( Paris 1848/ East Village 1988) , Gentrification, and the R

Mind the 'Rent Gap'

Landgrabs and Manhunts.

Bohemian Brumaires and the Authoritarian State

The Representational Work of Aids

11. Metropolis of the Midlands

Myths of Birmingham

Urban Living as Bad

Rethinking the Urban

Urban Living as Cosmopolitan Living

Relocation of Economy

Metropolis

12. Singapore Soil: A Completely Different Organisation of Space

Prelude

Singapore Soil: 'Greening Up'

The Points of Singapore (Transitlink Guide): Orchard

Space and Place

Points

Points 2

The Empirial

Growing Up

Singapore

The Points of Singapore ( Transitlink Guide: Clementi Interchange)

...And Its Discontents

One, Two, Three

Urbanism

City/ State?

Contributors

Maria Balshaw

Gargi Bhattacharyya

Peter Brooker

Al Deakin

Richard Ings

Liam Kennedy

Myrto Konstantarakos

John Phillips

Pascal Pinck

Stephen Shapiro

Douglas Tallack

Index

ACT UP, 159-60

aerial photography, 62-3

African American

13

16

urban experience, 42-3

urban experience, 82-4

Aids

18

158-60

anamorphism 32

Angotti, Thomas

166

167

Anti-urbanism 166-7

Arendt, Hannah 33

Aristotle 12

Armory Show 26

Ashcan School painters

9

25-38

Augé, Marc 141

Auster, Paul

100

104

The New York Trilogy, 104

The New York Trilogy, 115

avant garde cinema

85

87

90

Balazs, Etienne 191

Baldwin, James 86

banlieues 135-8

Baudelaire, Charles

30

31

bell hooks

54

109

Bellows, George

26

27

Blue Morning 34-7

New York, 27-9

Pennsylvania Station Excavation, 33-4

Benjamin, Walter

114n

127n

Bhabha, Homi 16

Bigelow, Kathryn

124

125

126

Birmingham

162

as metropolis, 171-4

multiethnic heritage of, 169-70

myths of, 162-5

Birth of a Nation [D.W. Griffith film] 88.

Blue in the Face [Wayne Wang and Paul Auster film]

105

106

community in, 108-11

body

166-7

and urban space, 73-5

and urban space, 78-80

and urban space, 125

disabled, 13

disabled, 72-4

Bourke-White, Margaret 48

Brooker, Peter 93

Brooklyn

14

108

111-12

Buell, Frederick 15

Calvino, Italo 39-40

Carter, Angela 110

Chambers, Iain

113n

Chew, Shirley 181

Chicago 7

Chicago School 83

city

as centre, 17

as centre, 18

as metaphor, 5-6

image, 16

image, 18

Clark, T.J. 135

Clarke, David B.

56

118

Clover, Carol 123

Coleman, A.D. 52

community

10

12

101-04

Conley, Tom 142

Connor, Steve

71

80

Crary, Jonathan

25

Cross, Malcolm

cultural geography

2

19

99

Davis, Mike

117

122

124-6

de Certeau, Michel 27

DeCarava, Roy 9

DeLillo, Don 55

Dickens, Charles

6

12-13

71-2

A Christmas Carol, 74-7

A Christmas Carol, 79

A Christmas Carol, 80

The Old Curiosity Shop, 77-80

Doane, Mary Ann

59

66

Doezema, Marianne

29

33

37

Douglas, Ann 93

Dyer, Richard 88

Ellison, Ralph

51

53

Falling Down [Joel Schumacher film]

119

127

white male paranoia in, 120-3

fear

Feuer, Jane 58

film and urban space

8

118-19

film de banlieue

131

and American ghetto films, 131-5

centre and periphery in, 138-43

Fischer, Gustave-Nicolas 141

Fisher, Rudolph 46

Flaneur

142

168

Foster, Jodie 131

Foucault, Michel

1

73

France 17

gentrification

15

17-18

148-52

158-60.

Gerster, George 63

ghetto

40-1

84

in film, 132-5

Gibson, Katherine 102

Gibson, William 194n

Giddens, Anthony 108

global and local

6-7

17

153-4

global cities

global city theorists 18

globalisation

grid [modernist]

35-6

Grosz, Elizabeth 118

HABITAT 165-6

Hall, Stuart

52

89

Hall, Tim 163

Handlin, Oscar 31

Hargreaves, Alec 134

Harlem

40

82

95

white photography of, 41-2

Harlem Renaissance

41

Harvey, David 1-2

Hollevoet, Christine

homelessness 15

Hughes, Langston

42

hyperspace 6

I Shot Andy Warhol [Mary Harron film] 159

interpretation

3-4

11

188-9

Jay, Martin

Johnson, James Weldon

50

Jones, Karen 29

Julien, Isaac

86

Kasan, Goh

179

193n

Keith, Michael

King, Rodney 124-5

Kofman, Eleonore 137

Krauss, Rosalind

32

Kushner, Tony 158

La Bohème

149

155-7

La Haine [Mathieu Kassovitz film]

La Haine [Mathieu Kassovitz film], 136

La Haine [Mathieu Kassovitz film], 137

La Haine [Mathieu Kassovitz film], 138-42

Lapsley, Rob 132

Larson, Jonathan 159

Lefebvre, Michel

2-3

legibility

3-5

77

Locke, Alaine 84

Looking for Langston [Isaac Julien film]

community in, 95-6

race and homosexuality in, 87-90

visuality in, 85-6

visuality in, 87

voyeurism and looking relations in, 88-90

Los Angeles

98

airborne view of, 60-1

Los Angeles Times

65-6

67

Lukacs, Georg 28

Luks, George

34

Hester Street, 29-31

Lyons, David 98.

Mahoney, Elizabeth 142

Manhattan

7

Marx, Karl

148

152-4

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 154

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 156-7

Massey, Doreen 103

Mercer, Kobena 90

metropolis 18

modernism 32

modernity

5

79

Mondrian, Piet

Morrison, Toni

Jazz, 13

Jazz, 82

Jazz, 84

narrative voice in, 93-5

visuality in, 91-2

Mumford, Lewis 117

Murger, Henry

155

157

Murray, Albert

national identity 15

New York City

146

airborne view of, 61-2

in painting, 25-38

Nugent, Bruce

Pan, Lynn 186

paranoid spatiality

117-19

126-7

Paris

135

138

139

140

Park, Robert E.

83

photo-text 40

photography

9-10

40-52

85-6

91-2

place

and identity, 101-4

policing 146-48

postcolonial 180

postmodern urbanism

13-14

98-104

postmodernism 18

postmodernity

postnational space 15-19

power 3-11

Preziosi, Donald 5

psychic space 6

public space

race

and representation, 125

and space, 12

and space, 13

and space, 14

and space, 84

Reader, Keith

representational rights 7

Riis, Jacob 42

Robins, Kevin

103

111

Rogers, Paul A. 52

Sandercock, Leonie 169

Sassen, Sakia

Schulman, Sarah 159

Schumacher, Joel 120

Sennett, Richard 12

Sharpe, William 4

Shields, Rob 3.

Shinn, Everett.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781849645065

184964506X

9780585433660

0585433666

OCLC:

923330146