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Spectacle and the city : Chinese urbanities in art and popular culture /
China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible e...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Cities and cultures ;
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Speed and spectacle in Chinese cities / Ackbar Abbas
- Planned demi-monde and its aestheticisation in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat
- Coming of age in RMB City / Robin Visser
- The architecture of Utopia : from Rem Koolhaas' scale models to RMB City / Yomi Braester
- Imagining a disappearing and reappearing Chinese city / Jeroen de Kloet
- Tuning urban China / Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau
- The city's (dis)appearance in propaganda / Stefan Landsberger
- Claiming the past, presenting the present, selling the future : imagining a new Beijing, great Olympics / Gladys Pak Lei Chong
- Shanghai in film and literature : the danger of nostalgia / Gregory Bracken
- Nostalgia, place, and making peace with modernity in East Asia / Margaret Hillenbrand
- Femme fatales and male narcissists : Shanghai spectacle narrated, packaged and sold / Lena Scheen
- City regeneration and its opposition / Ou Ning
- Law, embodiment, and the case of 'harbourcide' / John Nguyet Erni.