1st Edition

The American City in the Cinema

By James A. Clapp Copyright 2013
370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

The American city and the American movie industry grew up together in the early decades of the twentieth century, making film an ideal medium through which to better understand urban life. Exploiting the increasing popularity of large metropolitan cities and urban lifestyle, movies chronicled the city and the stories it generated. In this volume, urbanist James A. Clapp explores the reciprocal... Read more
Preface 1The American City in the Cinema: An Introduction 2The Urban Medium 3Streets of Gold: Immigrants in the City and the Cinema 4The Small Town in a Metropolitan World 5How Ya Gonna Keep'em Down on the Farm? 6Suburbia and the American Dream 7Growing Up Urban: The City, the Cinema, and American Youth 8Family Values, City Ways 9Politics, the City, and the Cinema 10Mean Streets and Cities of Night 11Are You Talking to Me?: New York and the Cinema of Urban Alienation 12Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the City and the Cinema 13The Urban Woman: Labor, Liberation, and Love in the Cinematic City 14City Work 15Nature, Technophobia, and the Cinema of the Urban Future 16The City as Cinema References Film List Name Index Subject Index

Biography

James A. Clapp