Dr Lawrence Webb is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex.

'The Cinema of Urban Crisis is instantly a classic study on the relationship between the city and the cinema. The breadth and scope of this magnificent work is remarkable; Webb . . . has a seemingly limitless knowledge of urban history, political movements and ideology, and film. . . . This is an outstanding and important work. . . . Essential.' - ChoiceThis is an outstanding and important work. - G.R. Butters, Choice Connect

• Introduction: Cinema and Urbanism after 1968 1. Crisis and Restructuring in Seventies Hollywood: Spatial Perspectives 2. Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Detroit: Deindustrialization and Urban Renaissance 3. New York City: The Big Apple from Urban Crisis to Fiscal Crisis 4. San Francisco: Networks of Post-Fordism 5. Los Angeles: The Emergence of Postmodern Urbanism Interlude: Towards a Transnational Urban Cinema 6. London: Grassroots Action and the Critique of Modernism 7. Paris: Urban theory and the Other Parises 8. Rome and Milan: Cinema, Architecture and the Italian anni di piombo 9. Frankfurt, Cologne, Berlin: New German Cinema and the Urban Public Sphere Conclusion: Beyond the Crisis.