The Cinema of Urban Crisis : Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (424 pages)
- Cities and Cultures Series ; v.4 .
- Cities and Cultures Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Films and Television Programmes Cited in the Text -- References -- Index.