Table of contents for Cinema and the city : film and urban societies in a global context / edited by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice.


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1 Cinema and the City in History and Theory
Mark Shiel
2 Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
Tony Fitzmauice
Part 1: Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles
3 Bunker Hill: Hollywood's Dark Shadow
Mike Davis
4  Film Mystery as Urban History: The Case of Chinatown
John Walton
5 Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project,
or Film History as Urban Renewal
Josh Stenger



Part 2: Urban Identities, Production, and Exhibition
6  Shamrock: Houston's Green Promise
James Hay
7 From Workshop to Backlot: The Greater Philadelphia
Film Office
Paul Swann
8 Cities: Real and Imagined
Geoffey Nowell-Smith
9  Emigrating to New York in 3-D: Stereoscopic Vision in
IMAX's Cinematic City
Mark Neumann
10 Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace:
The Tampa Theater, Florida
Janna Jones
11 Global Cities and the International Film Festival Economy
Julian Stringer
Part 3: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis
12 Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows
Through Saigon
J. Paul Narkunas
13 Cityscape: The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization
of Manila
Rolando B. Tolentino
14  The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales, The Castle
Justine Lloyd
15 Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema
in the 1950s andJamie Uys's The Urgent Queue
Ga Baines
16 The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivalent City in Nigerian
Video Films
Obododimma Oha
17 Montreal Between Strangeness, Home, and Flow
Bill Marshall
18 (Mis-)Representing the Irish Urban Landscape
Kevin Rockett



Part 4: Urban Reactions on Screen
Idealism and Defeat
19 Postwar Urban Redevelopment, the British Film Industry,
and The Way We Live
Leo Enticknap
20 Naked: Social Realism and the Urban Wasteland
Mike Mason
Escape and Invasion
21 Jacques Tati's Play Time as New Babylon
Laurent Marie
22 Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones
in French Banlieue Films
Adrian Fielder
Index








Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Cities and towns in motion pictures, Motion pictures Social aspects, City and town life