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Divided City and Its New Cinemas, 1920-1980

AvAmy Murphy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Film offers a powerful witness to the historical effects of segregation. Twentieth-century American urban policy favored "white flight" to the suburbs while confining other racial and ethnic groups in urban cores. Mainstream cinema, in turn, perpetuated racial stereotypes that justified this confinement. Amy Murphy revisits this history via six independent films, each mapping a distinct urban geography at a particular moment in the century.Murphy's analysis reveals that certain veins of postwar independent filmmaking grew out of specific policy failures of the American city. With increased access to media production, such filmmakers created new cinemas from within the segregated city that expanded avenues for self-representation.Informed and insightful, The Divided City and Its New Cinemas, 1920–1980 examines how often-raw independent films pioneered cinematic exploration of identities impacted by space and time, and by geography and history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-31
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:History of Media and Communication
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
ISBN:9780252049712

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Film inom Kultur
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Amy Murphy is a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction 1Ch 1: The City as Subject (Manhatta, 1921) 20Ch 2: From City Symphonies to Suburban Citadels (The City, 1939) 59Ch 3: Inventing the "Slum" and the New Downtown (The Exiles, 1961) 96 Ch 4: Life in the Hypersegregated Ghetto (Killer of Sheep, 1977) 136Ch 5: The Barrio and the Bilingual City (Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!, 1976) 175Ch 6: Fugitive Identity and the Transnational Enclave (Chan is Missing, 1982) 212Afterword 252Notes Appendix: Maps of Six Key GeographiesIndex