1st Edition

The Cinema of Urban Crisis Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City

By Lawrence Webb Copyright 2015
424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of planning, economics and urban theory. At the same time, film industries experienced a parallel process of transition, the effects of which rippled through the aesthetic and narrative form of the decade's cinema. The Cinema of Urban Crisis traces a... Read more

Introduction: Cinema and Urbanism after 1968

1. Mapping New Hollywood: Spatial Perspectives

2. Atlantic City, Philadelphia and Detroit: Narratives of Decline and Urban Renaissance

3. New York City: Cinema and Crisis in the Entrepreneurial City

4. San Francisco: Projections of Post-Fordism, Allegories of Independence

5. Los Angeles: The Cinematic Aesthetics of Postmodern Urbanism

6. Global Flight Paths: Towards a Transnational Urban Cinema

7. London: The Crisis of Modernism and the End of Utopia

8. Paris: Urban Revolutions: Film and Urban Theory after 1968

9. Rome and Milan: The Anni di Piombo and the Politics of Space

10. Frankfurt, Cologne and Berlin: New German Cinema and the Urban Public Sphere

Biography

Lawrence Webb is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.