"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"
"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
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