Modernity and Metropolis
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Modernity and Metropolis

Writing, Film and Urban Formations

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eBook - PDF

Modernity and Metropolis

Writing, Film and Urban Formations

About this book

A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker draws on Beck and Giddens to propose a 'reflexive modernism' which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. The principal cities considered are London and New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Writers considered include Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Hanif Kureishi, Iain Sinclair, Paul Auster, Sarah Schulman and William Gibson. Filmmakers include Patrick Keiller and Wong Kar-Wai.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: Beginnings in Endings
  5. 1. American Modernists in Modern London
  6. 2. Modernism Deferred: Harlem Montage
  7. 3. Inside Ethnicity: Suburban Outlooks
  8. 4. Re-imagining London
  9. 5. ‘Hymn to the Great People’s Republic of Brooklyn’
  10. 6. ‘Witness to my times’: Sarah Schulman and the Lower East Side
  11. 7. In the Matrix: East West Encounters
  12. Coda: Postmetropolis and the Art of Fabrication
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index