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Noir Urbanisms : Dystopic Images of the Modern City /

Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Prakash, Gyan, 1952- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: imaging the modern city, darkly / Gyan Prakash -- Modernism and urban dystopia. The phantasm of the Apocalypse : Metropolis and Weimar modernity / Anton Kaes -- Sounds like hell : dystopian urban noise / James Donald -- Tlatelolco : Mexico City's urban dystopia / Ruben Gallo -- The aesthetics of the dark city. A regional geography of film noir : urban cystopias on- and off-screen / Mark Shiel -- Oh no, there goes Tokyo : recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- Postsocialist urban dystopia? / Li Zhang -- Friction, collision, and the grotesque : the dystopic fragments of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- Imaging urban crisis. Topographies of distress : Tokyo, c. 1930 / David Ambaras -- Living in dystopia : past, present and future in contemporary African cities / Jennifer Robinson -- Imaging urban breakdown : Delhi in the 1990s / Ravi Sundaram. 
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