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Screening the City
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Contributor-Jude Davies, Contributor-Matthew Gandy, Contributor-Martin Gaughan, Contributor-Paul Gormley, Contributor-Peter Jelavich, Contributor-Jessie Labov, Contributor-Tyrus Miller, Contributor-John Orr, Paula J. Massood, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Carsten Strathausen, Darrell Varga
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-690-2, ISBN: 1-85984-690-4

"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 ..."






Screening the City(1st Edition)
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Matthew Gandy, Martin Gaughan, Paul Gormley, Peter Jelavich, Jessie Labov, Tyrus Miller, Darrell Varga, Carsten Strathausen, Professor Jude Davies, Jude Davies, John Orr, Professor Paula J. Massood, Professor John Orr, Dr Allan Siegel Md Phd, Professor David Sorfa, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Professor Mark Shiel, Shiel Fitzmaurice
Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-476-2, ISBN: 1-85984-476-6

"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 ..."






Studies in Urban and Social Change
Cinema and the City : Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context 48
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice
320 Pages, Published 2011 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-9973-8, ISBN: 1-4443-9973-X

"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(1st Edition)
Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Shiel Fitzmaurice
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN-13: 978-0-631-22244-6, ISBN: 0-631-22244-8

"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






Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre(1st Edition)
(Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)
by Jeanette R. Malkin , Freddie Rokem , Thomas Postlewait
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Iowa Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-868-4, ISBN: 1-58729-868-6

All Authors

Tony Fitzmaurice

Mark Shiel

David Sorfa

Carsten Strathausen

Darrell Varga

Allan Siegel

John Orr

Jude Davies

Paul Gormley

Martin Gaughan


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