Description
- This book examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s
- It places the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive, and endlessly inspiring place
- The book draws on mainstream, independent, documentary, and experimental films
- It offers a multifaceted account of the power of film to imagine the city's decline and reimagine its potential
- The book analyzes how filmmakers mobilized derelict space and various articulations of "nature" as settings and signifiers that decenter traditional understandings of the city to represent New York alternately as a wasteland, a wilderness, a playground, a home, an art space, and an ecosystem
- This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of film studies, media studies, urban cinema, eco-cinema, and architectural theory
About the Author
Cortland Rankin is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, USA. His research interests include the relationship between film and postindustrial American urbanism as well as war cinema and media, particularly as it concerns film and television of the Korean War.
Book Information
ISBN 9781032246413
Author Cortland Rankin
Format Hardback
Page Count 250
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Weight(grams) 453g