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This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies.

Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the City s diverse essays explore visual representations of urbanism and modernity reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.

This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies.

Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the City's diverse essays explore visual representations of urbanism and modernity reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts....

The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations. Yet it exerted such a profound influence on Italian cinema that all the best postwar directors had to come to terms with it, whether in seeming imitation (the early Olmi), in commercial exploitation (the middle Comencini) or in ostensible rejection (the recent Tavianis). Despite the reactionary pressures of the marketplace and the highly personalized visions of Fellini, Antonioni. And Visconti, Italian cinema has...

Armed with pistols and wearing jackboots, Bishop Henry Compton rode out in 1688 against his King but in defence of the Church of England and its bishops. His actions are a dramatic but telling indication of what was at stake for bishops in early modern England and Compton's action at the height of the Restoration was the culmination of more than a century and a half of religious controversy that engulfed bishops. Bishops were among the most important instruments of royal, religious, national and local authority in seventeenth-century England. While their actions and ideas trickled down to...

Auf unheimliche Weise vertraut und zugleich schockierend fremd: Ben Marcus Storys fesseln mit klarer poetischer Prosa. Noch nie hat existenzielle Katastrophe so viel Spaß gemacht.

Ben Marcus entwirft in dieser Sammlung zeitgemäße Visionen der Entfremdung in einer modernen Welt: Hier findet eine unglückliche Angestellte die Liebe, nachdem sie sich durch den Test des neuesten Nahrungsergänzungsmittels ihrer Firma verändert. Ein Vater sieht sich von der plötzlichen Abweisung seines Sohnes erschüttert, und so schleicht sich das Unheimliche in das Kinderzimmer ein,...