Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city

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Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city

edited by Gyan Prakash

Princeton University Press, c2010

  • : hardback
  • : pbk

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Noir urbanisms

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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 / Ruben 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

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