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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.