The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world.
In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Europe and the United States since the early twentieth century. Peter Jelavich, for example, links the suppression of the creative, liberal Weimar Berlin in...
The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in t...
"Architectures of Revolt explores the intertwined stories of cinema and the city in 1968, a year which witnessed political revolutions and a revolutionary cinematic engagement, both of which relied upon interacting with and using the city in new ways. Includes case studies from cities around the world"--
"Architectures of Revolt explores the intertwined stories of cinema and the city in 1968, a year which witnessed political revolutions and a revolutio...
"Architectures of Revolt explores the intertwined stories of cinema and the city in 1968, a year which witnessed political revolutions and a revolutionary cinematic engagement, both of which relied upon interacting with and using the city in new ways. Includes case studies from cities around the world"--
"Architectures of Revolt explores the intertwined stories of cinema and the city in 1968, a year which witnessed political revolutions and a revolutio...
