Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series 50)

This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.Content: Chapter 1 Cinema and the City in History and Theory (pages 1–18): Mark Shiel Chapter 2 Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (pages 19–30): Tony Fitzmaurice Chapter 3 Bunker Hill: Hollywood's Dark Shadow (pages 33–45): Mike Davis Chapter 4 Film Mystery as Urban History: The Case of Chinatown (pages 46–58): John Walton Chapter 5 Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal (pages 59–72): Josh Stenger Chapter 6 Shamrock: Houston's Green Promise (pages 75–87): James Hay Chapter 7 From Workshop to Backlot: The Greater Philadelphia Film Office (pages 88–98): Paul Swann Chapter 8 Cities: Real and Imagined (pages 99–108): Geoffrey Nowell?Smith Chapter 9 Emigrating to New York in 3?D: Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic City (pages 109–121): Mark Neumann Chapter 10 Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theater, Florida (pages 122–133): Janna Jones Chapter 11 Global Cities and the International Film Festival Economy (pages 134–144): Julian Stringer Chapter 12 Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows Through Saigon (pages 147–157): J. Paul Narkunas Chapter 13 Cityscape: The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization of Manila (pages 158–170): Rolando B. Tolentino Chapter 14 The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales, The Castle (pages 171–184): Justine Lloyd Chapter 15 Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue (pages 186–194): Gary Baines Chapter 16 The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivalent City in Nigerian Video Films (pages 195–205): Obododimma Oha Chapter 17 Montreal Between Strangeness, Home, and Flow (pages 206–216): Bill Marshall Chapter 18 (Mis?)Representing the Irish Urban Landscape (pages 217–228): Kevin Rockett Chapter 19 Postwar Urban Redevelopment, the British Film Industry, and The Way We Live (pages 233–243): Leo Enticknap Chapter 20 Naked: Social Realism and the Urban Wasteland (pages 244–253): Mike Mason Chapter 21 Jacques Tati's Play Time as New Babylon (pages 254–269): Laurent Marie Chapter 22 Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones in French Banlieue Films (pages 270–281): Adrian Fielder Cinema and the City provides a vehicle for the expression of new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship of film and the city, as these impact upon the lived realities of urban societies. The emphasis is on international diversity and a conceptual organization that attempts to map out different relations of power in the geopolitical system in terms of dominance, subordination, mediation, and resistance, and their articulation in cinema and its political economy.The contributors show how various international cinemas, in their exploration of the fabric of contemporary urban spaces, articulate power in the contemporary world. The case studies presented range from prototypical postmodern cities such as Los Angeles to the colonial and post-colonial. Specific attention is devoted to the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This book is concerned with the relationship between the most important cultural form - cinema - and the most important form of social organization - the city - in the twentieth century (and, for the time being at least, the twenty-first century), as this relationship operates and is experienced in society as a lived social reality.