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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representation--because the history of the modern city is inseparable from the production and circulation of images--and examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism. Contributors explore dystopic images of the m. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400836628 |