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Titre(s) : The city in American cinema [Texte imprimé] : film and postindustrial culture / edited by Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb
Publication : London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Description matérielle : ix, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : International library of the moving image
Lien à la collection : International library of the moving image
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of American cities and
urban culture since the 1960s? And what role have films and film industries played
in shaping and mediating cultural and economic change in the 'postindustrial' city?
This interdisciplinary collection argues that cinema and cities have become increasingly
intertwined in the era of urban branding, cultural industries, and 'creative cities'.
Spanning four decades of US urban history, from decline and crisis in the 1970s and
1980s to neoliberal restructuring, galloping globalization and accelerated gentrification
in the 1990s and beyond, the book considers the complex, evolving relationship between
moving image cultures and the urban environment in key cinematic cities such as New
York, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit. Across twelve chapters, the contributors address
these questions via textual and industrial perspectives, analyzing questions of narrative,
aesthetics, and genre as well as contexts of production, exhibition and reception.
Drawing together critical concepts from film and urban studies, the chapters view
contemporary cinema through the political and social geographies of class, race, gender,
and sexuality. From Hollywood blockbusters to independent cinema, romantic comedy
to science fiction, key films discussed include Frances Ha, Fruitvale Station, Desperately
Seeking Susan, The King of New York, Inception, Doctor Strange, Only Lovers Left Alive
and The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Andersson, Johan (1972-....). Éditeur scientifique
Webb, Lawrence. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Villes -- Au cinéma
Croissance urbaine -- États-Unis -- 1970-....
Cinéma -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 21732 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thème des lieux - Régions urbaines
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350115620. - ISBN 1350115622. - ISBN 9781350115637. - ISBN 1350115630. -
ISBN 9781788313186 (erroné). - ISBN 9781350115644. - ISBN 1350115649. - ISBN 1788313186.
- ISBN 9781788313186
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46590464c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46590464
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : American Cinema and Urban Change: Industry, Genre, and Politics from Nixon to Trump
/ Johan Andersson, King's College London, UK and Lawrence Webb, University of Sussex,
UK ; Part One: Film Production and the Postindustrial Turn. Daniel Bell, Post-industrial
Society and Los Angeles Cinema c.a 1967-72 / Mark Shiel, King's College London, UK
; Made in New York: Film Production, the City Government, and Public Protest in the
Koch Era / Lawrence Webb, University of Sussex, UK ; You Don't Have to Call Us Home,
but Please Stay Here: The City Film Commission / Nathan Koob, Oakland University,
USA ; The Boston Movie Boom / Carlo Rotella, Boston College, USA ; Part Two: Postindustrial
Narratives and Aesthetics. The New Boston and the Grip of Tradition: The Friends of
Eddie Coyle (1973), The Brink's Job (1978), and The Verdict (1982) / Stanley Corkin,
University of Cincinnati, USA ; Undead Detroit: Crisis Capitalism and Urban Ruin /
Camilla Fojas, University of Virginia, USA ; The Flexible Urban Imaginary: Postindustrial
Cities in Inception, The Adjustment Bureau, and Doctor Strange / Nick Jones, University
of York, UK ; A Networked Life: Representations of Connectivity and Structural Inequalities
in Fruitvale Station / Amy Corbin, Muhlenberg College, USA ; Part Three: Cinema and
Gentrification. For Whom Are the Movies?: The Landscape of Movie Exhibition in the
Gentrified City / Brendan Kredell, Oakland University, USA ; Ebbets Field and Other
Monuments: Outer Borough Neighborhoods and Revanchism in 1990s Cinema / Erica Stein,
Vassar College, USA ; Gentrification by Genre: Desperately Seeking Susan and the 1980s
Screwball / Johan Andersson, King's College London, UK ; Frances Doesn't Live Here
Anymore: Gender, Crisis, and the Creative City in Frances Ha and The Giant Mechanical
Man / Martha Shearer, King's College London, UK ; Index.
