The American city in the cinema /
Clapp, James A.
The American city in the cinema / James A. Clapp. - xv, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
9781412851480 (hbk. : acidfree paper) 1412851483 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
2012045367
City and town life in motion pictures.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Ciudades y pueblos en el cine
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--United States
Cine--Historia y crítica--Estados Unidos
PN 1995.9 / C589a 2013
791.43/6556
The American city in the cinema / James A. Clapp. - xv, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
9781412851480 (hbk. : acidfree paper) 1412851483 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
2012045367
City and town life in motion pictures.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Ciudades y pueblos en el cine
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--United States
Cine--Historia y crítica--Estados Unidos
PN 1995.9 / C589a 2013
791.43/6556