Cinema and the city.: film and urban societies in a global context.

Texts:
1. Mark Shiel: Cinema and the City in History and Theory ;
2. Tony Fitzmaurice: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context ;
Part 1 : Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles
PART 1 : Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles :
3. Mike Davis: Bunker Hill: Hollywood's Dark Shadow ;
4. John Walton: Film Mystery as Urban History: The Case of Chinatown ;
5. Josh Stenger: Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal ;
PART 2: Urban Identities, Production, and Exhibition :
6. James Hay: Shamrock: Houston's Green Promise ;
7. Paul Swann: From Workshop to Backlot: The Greater Philadelphia Film Office ;
8. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith: Cities: Real and Imagined ;
9. Mark Neumann: Emigrating to New York in 3-D: Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic City ;
10. Janna Jones: Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theater, Florida ;
11. Julian Stringer: Global Cities and the International Film Festival Economy ;
PART 3: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis :
12. J. Paul Narkunas: Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows Through Saigon ;
13. Rolando B. Tolentin: Cityscape : The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization of Manila ;
14. Justine Lloyd: The Politics of Dislocation: Airporttales, The Castle ;
15. Gary Baines: Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's 'The Urgent Queue' ;
16. Obododimma Oha: The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivilent City in Nigerian Video Films ;
17. Bill Marshall: Montréal Between Strangeness, Home, and Flow ;
18 Kevin Rockett: (Mis-)Representing the Irish Urban Landscape ;
PART 4: Urban Reactions on Screen Idealism and Defeat :
19. Leo Enticknap: Postwar and Urban Redevelopment, the British Film Industry, and The Way We Live ;
20 Mike Mason: Naked: Social Realism and the Urban Wasteland ; Escape and Invasion ;
21. Laurent Marie: Jacques Tati's Play Time as New Babylon ;
22. Adrian Fielder: Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones in French Banlieu Films ;
Index