"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 ..."
"They are mostly shot in the style from which film noir gets its name, with
highcontrast lighting and lots of night scenes. ... may be inserted to make the
contrast explicit – for example, The Killers (1946), Out of the Past (1947), and On
Dangerous Ground ... Generic cities can, at a pinch, be created on location (this
is the case with Godard's Alphaville (1965), set in an .... such an Ideal Home
environment, representative of the ..."
"Cinema and the City * Integrates urban sociology and film studies literature to show what can be learnt about cities from film. * Provides an innovative and instructive contribution to urban studies. * Includes a wide range of case studies from around the world. . Full description"
Rediscovering History(1st Edition) Culture, Politics, and the Psyche (Cultural Sitings) by Michael S. Roth , Stanford University Press Paperback, 556 Pages, Published 1994 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2313-8, ISBN: 0-8047-2313-3