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Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city / edited b y Gyan Prakash.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.Description: 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691146430 (hbk.)
  • 9780691146447 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436556  22
Contents:
Introduction: imaging the modern city, darkly / Gyan Prakash -- Mode rnism and urban dystopia. The phantasm of the Apocalypse: Metropolis an d Weimar modernity / Anton Kaes -- Sounds like hell: dystopian urban no ise / 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 g oes Tokyo: recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese pop ular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- Postsocialist urban dystopia? / Li Zhang -- Friction, collision, and the grotesque: the dystopic fragment s of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- Imaging urban crisis. Topograp hies of distress: Tokyo, c. 1930 / David Ambaras -- Living in dystopia: past, present and future in contemporary African cities / Jennifer Rob inson -- Imaging urban breakdown: Delhi in the 1990s / Ravi Sundaram.
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Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves 791.436556 NO I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001141288

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: imaging the modern city, darkly / Gyan Prakash -- Mode rnism and urban dystopia. The phantasm of the Apocalypse: Metropolis an d Weimar modernity / Anton Kaes -- Sounds like hell: dystopian urban no ise / 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 g oes Tokyo: recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese pop ular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- Postsocialist urban dystopia? / Li Zhang -- Friction, collision, and the grotesque: the dystopic fragment s of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- Imaging urban crisis. Topograp hies of distress: Tokyo, c. 1930 / David Ambaras -- Living in dystopia: past, present and future in contemporary African cities / Jennifer Rob inson -- Imaging urban breakdown: Delhi in the 1990s / Ravi Sundaram.

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