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The City in American Cinema Dr Johan Andersson (King's College London, UK)

The City in American Cinema By Dr Johan Andersson (King's College London, UK)

The City in American Cinema by Dr Johan Andersson (King's College London, UK)

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The City in American Cinema: Film and Postindustrial Culture by Dr Johan Andersson (King's College London, UK)

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s? And what role have films and film industries played in shaping and mediating the postindustrial city? This collection argues that cinema and cities have become increasingly intertwined in the era of neoliberalism, urban branding, and accelerated gentrification. Examining a wide range of films from Hollywood blockbusters to indie cinema, it considers the complex, evolving relationship between moving image cultures and the spaces, policies, and politics of US cities from New York, Los Angeles, and Boston to Detroit, Oakland, and Baltimore. The contributors address questions of narrative, genre, and style alongside the urban contexts of production, exhibition, and reception, discussing films including The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Cruising (1980), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), King of New York (1990), Inception (2010), Frances Ha (2012), Fruitvale Station (2013), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Doctor Strange (2016).

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The authors accomplish an immense feat when giving form to the feeling of incongruence that grips one as they walk through the locations these essays discuss ... [this book] gives one the language to understand one's place in the socio-spatial world. * Film Matters *
The forging of cinema within the crucible of urban modernity has been well established by scholars, but what happens to this connection as both cities and filmmaking transform in the post-industrial era? This collection brings long overdue focus to the decades following World War II, demonstrating how the deep interrelation between cinema and the city is sustained in the way movies are made, where they're shown, and the we see on screen. -- Nathan Holmes, Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Purchase College, SUNY
This collection offers an expansive bird's-eye view as well as street-level scrutiny of the post-classical cinematic cityscape, providing compelling, clear-sighted assessment of the mutually regenerative exchange between American cities and the U.S. film industry since the 1960s. Drawing on cultural geography, spatiality theory, and production and exhibition histories, (T)hese cogent, accessible essays map cinema's urban imaginaries and the cities and conditions out of which they are conjured, ranging from the postindustrial urban decline of American New Wave cinema to the gentrified creative city of recent indie film, from the outer borough to the indieplex, and from Nixon to Trump. -- Maria San Filippo, Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies, Goucher College, USA
This vital collection provides a broad interrogation of how American film, through its representational and industrial practices, has been deeply involved in the re-making of urban space. -- Michael D. Dwyer, Associate Professor of Media and Communication, Arcadia University, USA
As expected, New York and Los Angeles play a key role in investigating the postindustrial American city; the perceptive analyses of the spatial imagination and real spaces of postindustrial San Francisco, Boston, Oakland, and Detroit expand the book's scope and its importance to urban film studies. -- Christian Long, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia
A welcome addition to the literature on film and urbanism. Attends to the way different cities and genres imagine the urban and negotiate the unequal realities of postindustrial America. -- Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre, University of Notre Dame, USA
Smartly conceived and elegantly organized, this collection illuminates the many ways that the rise of the post-industrial city has left its transformative mark on the past half century of American cinema. -- Derek Nystrom, Associate Professor of English, McGill University, Canada

About Dr Johan Andersson (King's College London, UK)

Johan Andersson is Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography at King's College London, UK. He is the co-editor, with Lawrence Webb, of Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media (2016), the co-author, with Gallent and Marco Bianconi, of Planning on the Edge (2006) and has published articles in journals such as Antipode, IJURR, Society and Space and Urban Studies. Lawrence Webb is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City (2014). He is co-editor, with Johan Andersson, of Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media (2016), and with Joshua Gleich, Hollywood On Location: An Industry History (2018).

Table of Contents

American Cinema and Urban Change: Industry, Genre, and Politics from Nixon to Trump, Johan Andersson, King's College London, UK and Lawrence Webb, University of Sussex, UK Part One: Film Production and the Postindustrial Turn Daniel Bell, Post-industrial Society and Los Angeles Cinema c.a 1967-72, Mark Shiel, King's College London, UK Made in New York: Film Production, the City Government, and Public Protest in the Koch Era, Lawrence Webb, University of Sussex, UK You Don't Have to Call Us Home, but Please Stay Here: The City Film Commission, Nathan Koob, Oakland University, USA The Boston Movie Boom, Carlo Rotella, Boston College, USA Part Two Postindustrial Narratives and Aesthetics The New Boston and the Grip of Tradition: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Brink's Job (1978), and The Verdict (1982), Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati, USA Undead Detroit: Crisis Capitalism and Urban Ruin, Camilla Fojas, University of Virginia, USA The Flexible Urban Imaginary: Postindustrial Cities in Inception, The Adjustment Bureau, and Doctor Strange, Nick Jones, University of York, UK A Networked Life: Representations of Connectivity and Structural Inequalities in Fruitvale Station, Amy Corbin, Muhlenberg College, USA Part Three Cinema and Gentrification 9 For Whom Are the Movies?: The Landscape of Movie Exhibition in the Gentrified City, Brendan Kredell, Oakland University, USA Ebbets Field and Other Monuments: Outer Borough Neighborhoods and Revanchism in 1990s Cinema, Erica Stein, Vassar College, USA Gentrification by Genre: Desperately Seeking Susan and the 1980s Screwball, Johan Andersson, King's College London, UK Frances Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Gender, Crisis, and the Creative City in Frances Ha and The Giant Mechanical Man, Martha Shearer, King's College London, UK Index

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9781350194748
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The City in American Cinema: Film and Postindustrial Culture by Dr Johan Andersson (King's College London, UK)
Dr Johan Andersson (King's College London, UK)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2021-01-28
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