Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city - Prakash, Gyan. (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Film noir -- History and criticism; Cities and towns in motion pictures; City and town life in motion pictures