An edition of Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond
(2011)
Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond
representations of urban complexity in literature and film
by Jens Martin Gurr
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Inner cities in literature, City and town life in literature, History and criticism, Cities and towns in literature, Fiction, American fiction, City and town life in motion pictures, Public space in literature, Cities and towns in motion pictures, Public spaces in literatureTimes
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Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond: representations of urban complexity in literature and film
2011, Bilingual Press/ Editorial Bilingüe
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Jens Martin Gurr, Wilfried Raussert
The literary representation of urban complexity and the problem of simultaneity: a sketchy inventory of strategies / Jens Martin Gurr
Literary imaginaries of urban complexity. Cracks in the urban utopia: the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 in Thomas Pynchon's Against the day / Utku Mohultay
Paul Auster's In the country of last things: a journey into a thousand heterotopias and flows of becoming / Hattice Bay
The provincial metropolis: the function of the urban as dynamic agency in Paul Auster's The Brooklyn follies / Bianca Brinkmann, Marcel Thoene
Performing New York, narrating urban complexity: E. L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley / Stefanie Weymann
The transcultural novel and the urban complexity of Los Angeles: narrative transculturation and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange / Melanie U. Pooch
Global cities and cosmopolitanism re-visited: inter-American mobility in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange / Wilfried Raussert
Spaces of violence: the construction of the cityscape in Lyonel Trouillot's fiction / Julia Borst
The city from afar: representations of urbanity in recent Indian American literature / Christina Seeliger
Psychogeography and (in)sanity: walking London, New York, and Dubai with will self / Marcus Hartner
Simultaneous narratives: re-storing Jewish American memory in Berlin / Joshua Parker
Entractes: intermedial explorations of urban complexity. Urban identity in a state of flux: strategies of representing simultaneity, chaos, and complexity in extremely loud & incredibly close / Berit Michel
Deep gutters and monolithic blocks: representations of urban complexity in Eric Drooker's graphic art / Frank Erik Pointner
Conflicting imaginaries of urban socio-cultural complexity: diversity and division in contemporary U.S.-American cultural production / Christoph Schaub
Celluloid complexcities. Berlin, a mazing metropolis: representations in films of the Weimar Republic / Betsy Van Schlun
"Architectural jungle" or the "sum of its people"? policing post-war urban space in Anthony Mann's Side street (1950) / Bond Love
The cinematic city: the point of arrival as a clash of spaces in the films Midnight cowboy, Great expectations, and Day night day night / Miriam Brandel ... [et al.]
Mexico City: public and private spaces in four female filmmakers / Graciela Martinez-Zalce
Megacities of fear: spaces of transgression in Cidade de deus, Amores perros, and Crash / Josef Raab.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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