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Noir urbanisms dystopic images of the modern city

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2010ISBN:
  • 9780691146447
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.F54 N68 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: dystopian urban noise / James Donald -- Tlatelolco: Mexico City's urban dystopia / Ruben Gallo -- The aesthetics of the dark city. A regional geography of film noir: urban cystopias 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: dystopian urban noise / James Donald -- Tlatelolco: Mexico City's urban dystopia / Ruben Gallo -- The aesthetics of the dark city. A regional geography of film noir: urban cystopias 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.

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