The Cinema of Urban Crisis : : Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City / / Lawrence Webb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
• VerfasserIn: Webb, Lawrence,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Cities and Cultures ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.) :; 15 halftones

The Cinema of Urban Crisis explores the relationships between cinema and urban crises in the United States and Europe in the 1970s. 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 1970s 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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