The cinema of urban crisis : seventies film and the reinvention of the city / Lawrence Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Lawrence, author.

Series:

Cities and cultures.

Cities and Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cinema of Urban Crisis explores the relationships between cinema and urban crises in the United States and Europe in the 1970's. Discussing films by Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, Lawrence Webb reflects on processes of globalization and urban change that were beginning to transform cities like New York, London, and Berlin. Throughout, the 1970's are conceptualized as a historically distinctive period of crisis in capitalism, which reorganized urban landscapes and produced cultural innovation, technological change, and new configurations of power and resistance. Addressing themes of interest for film, cultural, and urban studies, this book is a compelling take on cinema from both sides of the Atlantic.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Mapping New Hollywood

2. Atlantic City, Philadelphia And Detroit

3. New York City

4. San Francisco

5. Los Angeles

6. Global Flight Paths

7. London

8. Paris

9. Rome And Milan

10. Frankfurt, Cologne And Berlin

Conclusion

Notes

Films And Television Programmes Cited In The Text

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 16, 2015).

ISBN:

1-04-078113-6

1-003-70552-9

1-04-079746-6

90-485-2299-4

9781003705529

OCLC:

1059272873