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Noir urbanisms : Dystopic images of the modern city

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Noir urbanisms : Dystopic images of the modern city

Sujet

dystopie, film, culture urbaine, représentations, histoire urbaine, conflit urbain, crise, crisis, dystopia, imaginaire, Prakash Gyan

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Abstract from the publisher :
 
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 modern city in Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban dystopia in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis; 1960s modernist architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and 1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar Japan's sci-fi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema; fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid Johannesburg; and Delhi's out-of-control and media-saturated urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges in Noir Urbanisms is the unsettling and disorienting alchemy between dark representations and the modern urban experience.
 
Contents :
 
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 : Beyond Dystopian Noise - James Donald
Tlatelolco : Mexico City's Urban Dystopia - Rubén Gallo
THE AESTHETICS OF THE DARK CITY
A Regional Geography of Film Noir : Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen - 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 R. Ambaras
Living in Dystopia : Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary African Cities - Jennifer Robinson
Imaging Urban Breakdown : Delhi in the 1990s - Ravi Sundaram
  Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.  

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NC

Éditeur

Princeton University Press

Date

September 2010

Format

288

Type

Ouvrage