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The American city in the cinema / James A. Clapp.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2013]Description: xv, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781412851480 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
  • 1412851483 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6556
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995.9 C589a 2013
Contents:
Preface -- The American city in the cinema: an introduction -- An urban medium -- Immigrants, the city, and the cinema -- Small towns in a metropolitan world -- How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? -- Suburbia and the American dream -- Growing up urban -- Family values, city ways -- Politics, on-screen and off -- Mean streets and cities of night -- Are you talking to me? New York and the cinema of urban alienation -- Class, race and ethnicity in the city and cinema -- The urban woman: labor, liberation and love in the cinematic city -- City work -- Nature, technophobia and the cinema of the urban future -- The city as cinema.
Summary: 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
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1995.9 C589a 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000163401

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index.

Preface -- The American city in the cinema: an introduction -- An urban medium -- Immigrants, the city, and the cinema -- Small towns in a metropolitan world -- How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? -- Suburbia and the American dream -- Growing up urban -- Family values, city ways -- Politics, on-screen and off -- Mean streets and cities of night -- Are you talking to me? New York and the cinema of urban alienation -- Class, race and ethnicity in the city and cinema -- The urban woman: labor, liberation and love in the cinematic city -- City work -- Nature, technophobia and the cinema of the urban future -- The city as cinema.

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

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