Cinema and the City
Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
Studies in Urban and Social Change
1. Edition March 2001
320 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22244-6
John Wiley & Sons
This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.
List of Illustrations.
List of Contributors.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
Part I: Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles.
Part II: Urban Identities, Production and Exhibition.
Part III: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis.
Part IV: Urban Reactions On-screen.
Fielder.
Index.
List of Contributors.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
Part I: Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles.
Part II: Urban Identities, Production and Exhibition.
Part III: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis.
Part IV: Urban Reactions On-screen.
Fielder.
Index.
"... a welcome addition to the reading-lists of graduate and undergraduate courses in film studies and urban studies/sociology...." (Urban Studies)
"... recommended to those who are exploring the exciting reciprocity between the city and the cinema...." (Journal of Urban Technology)
"... an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, and globalization... intriguing, engaging, and informed...." (Annals of the Association of American Geographers)
"Cinema and the City is an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, and globalization. With essays of exceptionally high quality this is an intriguing, engaging and informed work that should be accessible to an array of disciplines and students."
--Leo Zonn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Stitching together the complex and multiple intersections between film, cities, urban cultures and globalisation is no simple task, as any number of very good single-authored works will demonstrate. Despite these difficulties, Shiel and Fitzmaurice's excellent anthology rises to the occasion and, in the process, pushes film studies beyond its usual terrain of textual, audience and production analyses to relocate the subject matter within urban sociology [...] As the relationship between film and the city continue to develop as a focus of critical inquiry, Cinema and the City stands as one of the more accessible and innovative entry-points into the issues"
--Shiel and Fitzmaurice, Urban Studies
"... recommended to those who are exploring the exciting reciprocity between the city and the cinema...." (Journal of Urban Technology)
"... an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, and globalization... intriguing, engaging, and informed...." (Annals of the Association of American Geographers)
"Cinema and the City is an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, and globalization. With essays of exceptionally high quality this is an intriguing, engaging and informed work that should be accessible to an array of disciplines and students."
--Leo Zonn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Stitching together the complex and multiple intersections between film, cities, urban cultures and globalisation is no simple task, as any number of very good single-authored works will demonstrate. Despite these difficulties, Shiel and Fitzmaurice's excellent anthology rises to the occasion and, in the process, pushes film studies beyond its usual terrain of textual, audience and production analyses to relocate the subject matter within urban sociology [...] As the relationship between film and the city continue to develop as a focus of critical inquiry, Cinema and the City stands as one of the more accessible and innovative entry-points into the issues"
--Shiel and Fitzmaurice, Urban Studies
Mark Shiel is Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam
University and was formerly Faculty of Arts Fellow at the Centre
for Film Studies, University College Dublin. He is a graduate of
Trinity College Dublin and completed his PhD, "Radical Agendas and
the Politics of Space in American Cinema, 1968-1974" at the British
Film Institute in London in 1999.
Tony Fitzmaurice is College Lecturer at the Centre for
Film Studies, University College Dublin. As well as writing
regularly on the arts, Tony Fitzmaurice is a member of the Film
Institute of Ireland, and is currently preparing an anthology of
Irish Film Studies readings.
University and was formerly Faculty of Arts Fellow at the Centre
for Film Studies, University College Dublin. He is a graduate of
Trinity College Dublin and completed his PhD, "Radical Agendas and
the Politics of Space in American Cinema, 1968-1974" at the British
Film Institute in London in 1999.
Tony Fitzmaurice is College Lecturer at the Centre for
Film Studies, University College Dublin. As well as writing
regularly on the arts, Tony Fitzmaurice is a member of the Film
Institute of Ireland, and is currently preparing an anthology of
Irish Film Studies readings.
