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Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representationbecause the history of the modern city is inseparable from the production and circulation of imagesand examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism.Contributors explore dystopic images of the modern city in Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban dystopia in Fritz Langs 1927 film Metropolis; 1960s modernist architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and 1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar Japans scifi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema; fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid Johannesburg; and Delhis outofcontrol and mediasaturated urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges in Noir Urbanisms is the unsettling and disorienting alchemy between dark representations and the modern urban experience.In addition to the editor, the contributors are David R. Ambaras, James Donald, Rubn Gallo, Anton Kaes, Ranjani Mazumdar, Jennifer Robinson, Mark Shiel, Ravi Sundaram, William M. Tsutsui, and Li Zhang.
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This book is packed with fascinating images and insights, but it’s a bit heavy to get through at times. I appreciate the collaboration with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center; it adds depth. Just wish it had more varied topics throughout!
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James Carter
Interesting but Heavy
This book is packed with fascinating images and insights, but it’s a bit heavy to get through at times. I appreciate the collaboration with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center; it adds depth. Just wish it had more varied topics throughout!
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James Carter
Interesting but Heavy
This book is packed with fascinating images and insights, but it’s a bit heavy to get through at times. I appreciate the collaboration with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center; it adds depth. Just wish it had more varied topics throughout!
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Li Wei
A Bit Disappointed
I expected more from 'Dystopic Images of the Modern City'. It has some striking images, but many of them felt repetitive. Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t find it as engaging as I hoped. I wanted to love it!
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Li Wei
A Bit Disappointed
I expected more from 'Dystopic Images of the Modern City'. It has some striking images, but many of them felt repetitive. Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t find it as engaging as I hoped. I wanted to love it!
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