Urban Space and Representation
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Urban Space and Representation

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Urban Space and Representation

About this book

Theories of urban space have become the focus of a great deal of work by scholars in cultural geography, urban studies and critical theory. This volume contributes to that debate by analysing the relationship between theories of urban space and literary and visual representations of the city – an emergent area of confluence in literary, film and cultural studies. The contributors address themes such as visual culture and spectacle; class and capital; community and public space; and nation, diaspora and belonging. Cities covered include New York, Chicago, Jerusalem, Paris, London, Birmingham and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Artists and writers discussed include Piet Mondrian, Nella Larsen, Rudolph Fisher, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Larsen, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Paul Auster and Wayne Wang.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. 1. Introduction: Urban Space and Representation
  4. Space and Vision
  5. 2. City Sights: Mapping and Representing New York City
  6. 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Urban Text and Image in The Sweet Flypaper of Life
  7. 4. From the Sofa to the Crime Scene: Skycam, Local News and the Televisual City
  8. Spaces of Difference
  9. 5. Fear and Sympathy: Charles Dickens and Urban ( Dis) Ability
  10. 6. Elegies to Harlem: Looking for Langston and Jazz
  11. 7. The Brooklyn Cigar Co. as Dialogic Public Sphere: Community and Postmodernism in Paul Auster and Wayne Wang's Smoke and Bl
  12. 8. Paranoid Spatiality: Postmodern Urbanism and American Cinema
  13. (Post) National Spaces
  14. 9. The film de banlieue: Renegotiating the Representation of Urban Space
  15. 10. ' Whose Fucking Park? Our Fucking Park!': Bohemian Brumaires ( Paris 1848/ East Village 1988) , Gentrification, and the R
  16. 11. Metropolis of the Midlands
  17. 12. Singapore Soil: A Completely Different Organisation of Space
  18. Contributors
  19. Index

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