Prakash Noir Urbanisms

Dystopic Images of the Modern City
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3662-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Prakash, Gyan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Imaging the Modern City, Darkly by Gyan Prakash 1
MODERNISM AND URBAN DYSTOPIA

Chapter 1: The Phantasm of the Apocalypse: Metropolis and Weimar Modernity by Anton Kaes 17
Chapter 2: Sounds Like Hell: Beyond Dystopian Noise by James Donald 31
Chapter 3: Tlatelolco: Mexico City's Urban Dystopia by Rubén Gallo 53

THE AESTHETICS OF THE DARK CITY
Chapter 4: A Regional Geography of Film Noir:Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen by Mark Shiel 75
Chapter 5: Oh No, There Goes Tokyo: Recreational Apocalypse and the City in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture by William M. Tsutsui 104
Chapter 6: Postsocialist Urban Dystopia? by Li Zhang 127
Chapter 7: Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque: The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema by Ranjani Mazumdar 150

IMAGING URBAN CRISIS
Chapter 8: Topographies of Distress: Tokyo, c. 1930 by David R. Ambaras 187
Chapter 9: Living in Dystopia: Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary African Cities by Jennifer Robinson 218
Chapter 10: Imaging Urban Breakdown: Delhi in the 1990s Ravi Sundaram by 241
Contributors 261
Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India, and The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life (both Princeton).