TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prakash,Gyan
TI  - Noir urbanisms: dystopic images of the modern city 
SN  - 9780691146430 (hardback : alk. paper)
U1  - 791.436 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Film noir
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Cities and towns in motion pictures
KW  - City and town life in motion pictures
N1  - 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: dystopian urban noise / James Donald -- Tlatelolco: Mexico City's urban dystopia / Ruben Gallo -- The aesthetics of the dark city. A regional geography of film noir: urban cystopias on- and off-screen / 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 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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