{"product_id":"screening-the-city-9781859844762","title":"Screening the City","description":"The city has long been an important location for film-makers. Visually compelling and always \"modern,\" it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this provocative collection of essays, a diverse range of films are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and paradigmatic urban experience in Europe and North America since the early twentieth century. Moscow, Leningrad, Berlin, Prague and Warsaw--sites of dramatic upheaval in the 1920s-1930s, and again in the 1970s-1980s--feature strongly in the first part of the book. In the cinematic representation of these cities, modernist experimentation combined with social and political change to produce such memorable films as \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Movie Camera\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Berlin: The Symphony of a Great City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Berlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e and, more recently, the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay. The different but comparable space of the North American city since World War Two provides the primary focus for the second part of the book. Here, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Toronto provide the settings for an investigation of the relationship between cinema and race, and cinema and postmodern global capitalism, in a comprehensive range of films from \u003ci\u003ePoint Blank\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Medium Cool\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Network \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Annie Hall \u003c\/i\u003ein the 1960s and 1970s, to \u003ci\u003eBoyz N the Hood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Falling Down\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Pulp Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e [Safe]\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Crash \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The End of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e in the 1990s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781859844762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 7.52w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tony Fitzmaurice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679513833653,"sku":"9781859844762","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/screening-the-city-9781859844762","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}