"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."
"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."
The New-brutality Film Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by PaulGormley 220 Pages, Published 2005 by Intellect Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-926-6, ISBN: 1-84150-926-4
"The 1990s saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the “newbrutality film.” Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the newbrutality film was the first kind of ..."
The New-Brutality Film Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by PaulGormley Published 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1-280-47699-0, ISBN: 1-280-47699-0
New Brutality Film Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by PaulGormley Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Intellect Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-119-2, ISBN: 1-84150-119-0
"The 1990s saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the new-brutality film. Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the new-brutality film was the first kind of popular American cinema to begin making this relationship explicit. The rise of this cinema coincided with the rebirth of a long-neglected strand of film theory, which seeks to unravel the complex relation ..."