Cinema and the City
Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
Mark Shiel editor Tony Fitzmaurice editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:16th Mar '01
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
"... a welcome addition to the reading-lists of graduate and undergraduate courses in film studies and urban studies/sociology...." (Urban Studies)
"... recommended to those who are exploring the exciting reciprocity between the city and the cinema...." (Journal of Urban Technology)
"... an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, and globalization... intriguing, engaging, and informed...." (Annals of the Association of American Geographers)
"Cinema and the City is an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, and globalization. With essays of exceptionally high quality this is an intriguing, engaging and informed work that should be accessible to an array of disciplines and students."
—Leo Zonn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Stitching together the complex and multiple intersections between film, cities, urban cultures and globalisation is no simple task, as any number of very good single-authored works will demonstrate. Despite these difficulties, Shiel and Fitzmaurice's excellent anthology rises to the occasion and, in the process, pushes film studies beyond its usual terrain of textual, audience and production analyses to relocate the subject matter within urban sociology [...] As the relationship between film and the city continue to develop as a focus of critical inquiry, Cinema and the City stands as one of the more accessible and innovative entry-points into the issues"
—Shiel and Fitzmaurice, Urban Studies
ISBN: 9780631222446
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
Weight: 481g
320 pages