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The cultural construction of London's East End : urban iconography, modernity and the spatialisation of Englishness /

Paul Newland's illuminating study explores the ways in which London's East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts - films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newland, Paul (Lecturer in film studies)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Colección:Spatial practices ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Cultural Construction of London's East End; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Development; II. Apotheosis; III. The Breath of the East; IV. From Bauhaus to the Blitz and Beyond; V. After Ronan Point: Re-imagining the Territory; VI. Docklands: The Clearing of the Misery?; VII. After Empire: Tourism, Immigration and Colonisation; VIII. Neo-Victorian Urban Visions; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.