London Eyes

Reflections in Text and Image
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-407-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Reihe: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections

London incessantly generates and incites cultural responses, pre-eminently in the interconnected domains of literature and film. This book demonstrates that those responses have been sustained as vital experiments and engagements in configuring the city and its inhabitants. Including essays by prominent cultural, literary and film historians this volume forms an original and incisive contribution to ongoing debates about the city’s intricate cultural history and its construction through both language and image, as a crucial site of identity, desire, exile and displacement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cunningham, Gail

Barber, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Gail Cunningham

PART I: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDON ON THE PAGE

Introduction

Gail Cunningham

Chapter 1. London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier

Gail Cunningham

Chapter 2. John Thomson’s London in Photographs

Lindsay Smith

Chapter 3. Displacing Urban Man: Sherlock Holmes’s London

Andrew Smith

Chapter 4. Aestheticism ‘At Home’ in London: A. Mary F. Robinson and the Aesthetic Sect

Ana Parejo Vadillo

Chapter 5. ‘There’s more space within than without’: Agoraphobia and the Bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage

Deborah Parsons

Chapter 6. The Aesthetics of Walking: Literary and Filmic Representations of London in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent

Roger Webster

PART II: THE MODERN AGE: LONDON IN IMAGE

Introduction

Stephen Barber

Chapter 7. An Indescribable Blur: Film and London

Stephen Barber

Chapter 8. Shutting Out the City: Reflections on the Portrayal of London in 1960s Auteur Cinema

Hugo Frey

Chapter 9. London circa Sixty-six: The Map of the Film

Roland-François Lack

Chapter 10. Representations of Dystopia and the Film City of London

Sara de Freitas

Chapter 11. Poodle Queens and the Great Dark Lad: Class, Masculinity and Suburban Trajectories in Gay London

Martin Dines

Chapter 12. Coda: What Colour Is Time? Derek Jarman’s Soho

Jeremy Reed

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barber, Stephen
Stephen Barber is a Professor of Media Arts at Kingston University. His most recent publications include The Vanishing Map (Berg, 2006), Hijikata (Creation, 2006) and The Art of Destruction (Creation 2004). He has been awarded international prizes and awards for his work by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Getty Program, the Ford Foundation, the DAAD Berlin Artists and Writers Programme, the Annenberg Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, the British Academy, the Daiwa Foundation, the Saison Foundation, and the London Arts Board.

Cunningham, Gail
Gail Cunningham is Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. Her recent publications include Houses in Between (CUP, 2004) Anna Lombard (Birmingham University Press, 2002) and He-Notes: Reconstructing Masculinity (Palgrave, 2000).

Gail Cunningham is Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. Her recent publications include Houses in Between (CUP, 2004) Anna Lombard (Birmingham University Press, 2002) and He-Notes: Reconstructing Masculinity (Palgrave, 2000).