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Inert cities : globalization, mobility and suspension in visual culture /
We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities - the flow of capital, people, labour and information - freeze, or decelerate? How can we assess the value of interruption in a city? What...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2014.
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| Colección: | International library of visual culture ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- About the Author; Bookreview; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Inertia, Suspension and Mobility in the Global City; Part 1 Stillness; 2 On Hold: Urban Photography as Interruption; 3 At the Still Point of the Turning World: The Power of the Urban Portrait; 4 Parkour and the Still Image; 5 Commuting and the Multiple Capacities of Stillness; Part 2 Deceleration; 6 Decelerating Amsterdam: Visual Culture, Globalization and Creative Urbanism; 7 Viennese Inertia: Cultural and Political Deceleration and Local Identity Construction.
- 8 Inertia and Ethical Urban Relations: The Living, the Dying and the DeadPart 3 Slow Motion; 9 Urban Inertia and Dealing with the Disappeared in Postwar Beirut: A Perfect Day (2004) and Here Comes the Rain (2010); 10 Reflexive Stasis, Scale Reversal and the Myth of Modern Cinema; 11 Slow Motion Pictures: Casting Inertia in Contemporary Berlin Film; Bibliography.