Noir Urbanisms : : Dystopic Images of the Modern City /

Noir Urbanisms : : Dystopic Images of the Modern City / / ed. by Gyan Prakash.

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Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, li...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ambaras, David R.,
Donald, James,
Gallo, Rubén,
Mazumdar, Ranjani,
Prakash, Gyan,
Robinson, Jennifer,
Shiel, Mark,
Sundaram, Ravi,
Tsutsui, William M.,
Zhang, Li,
HerausgeberIn:
Prakash, Gyan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 29 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Imaging the Modern City, Darkly
  • Modernism and Urban Dystopia
  • Chapter 1. The Phantasm of the Apocalypse
  • Chapter 2. Sounds Like Hell
  • Chapter 3. Tlatelolco
  • The Aesthetics of the Dark City
  • Chapter 4. A Regional Geography of Film Noir
  • Chapter 5. Oh No, There Goes Tokyo
  • Chapter 6. Postsocialist Urban Dystopia?
  • Chapter 7. Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque
  • Imaging Urban Crisis
  • Chapter 8. Topographies of Distress
  • Chapter 9. Living in Dystopia
  • Chapter 10. Imaging Urban Breakdown
  • Contributors
  • Index

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