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Abstract
Theories of urban space have become the focus of a great deal of work by scholars in cultural geography, urban studies and critical theory. This volume contributes to that debate by analysing the relationship between theories of urban space and literary and visual representations of the city – an emergent area of confluence in literary, film and cultural studies.
The contributors address themes such as visual culture and spectacle; class and capital; community and public space; and nation, diaspora and belonging. Cities covered include New York, Chicago, Jerusalem, Paris, London, Birmingham and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Artists and writers discussed include Piet Mondrian, Nella Larsen, Rudolph Fisher, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Larsen, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Paul Auster and Wayne Wang.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | vii | ||
| Photographs | viii | ||
| 1. Introduction: Urban Space and Representation | 1 | ||
| Space and Representation | 1 | ||
| Space and Vision | 7 | ||
| Spaces of Difference | 11 | ||
| ( Post) National Spaces | 15 | ||
| Notes | 19 | ||
| Space and Vision | 23 | ||
| 2. City Sights: Mapping and Representing New York City | 25 | ||
| Notes | 37 | ||
| 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Urban Text and Image in The Sweet Flypaper of Life | 39 | ||
| Photographic Territory | 40 | ||
| A Photographic Narrative | 42 | ||
| Photographic Space | 44 | ||
| Photographic Ambiguity | 51 | ||
| Notes | 53 | ||
| 4. From the Sofa to the Crime Scene: Skycam, Local News and the Televisual City | 55 | ||
| Life Through the Tube | 56 | ||
| The Skycam | 60 | ||
| The News in Your Front Yard | 64 | ||
| Notes | 67 | ||
| Spaces of Difference | 69 | ||
| 5. Fear and Sympathy: Charles Dickens and Urban ( Dis) Ability | 71 | ||
| Physical Impairment and Disability | 72 | ||
| A Christmas Carol: Disability, Charity and the Domesticated Urban | 74 | ||
| The Old Curiosity Shop: Urban Ability | 77 | ||
| Conclusion | 80 | ||
| Notes | 81 | ||
| 6. Elegies to Harlem: Looking for Langston and Jazz | 82 | ||
| Racialised Urbanity | 83 | ||
| An Urban Snapshot | 85 | ||
| Looking At or For? ? | 87 | ||
| Bitch or Dumpling Girl? | 91 | ||
| Notes | 96 | ||
| 7. The Brooklyn Cigar Co. as Dialogic Public Sphere: Community and Postmodernism in Paul Auster and Wayne Wang's Smoke and Bl | 98 | ||
| Maps and Movement | 100 | ||
| A Time for Stories | 104 | ||
| Open Endings | 107 | ||
| Notes | 113 | ||
| 8. Paranoid Spatiality: Postmodern Urbanism and American Cinema | 116 | ||
| Paranoid Spatiality | 117 | ||
| White Noise | 120 | ||
| Helter Skelter | 123 | ||
| The Distributed Panopticon | 126 | ||
| Notes | 127 | ||
| (Post) National Spaces | 129 | ||
| 9. The film de banlieue: Renegotiating the Representation of Urban Space | 131 | ||
| The Banlieue and the Ghetto | 131 | ||
| Space on the Margins | 135 | ||
| Inside and Outside | 138 | ||
| Centre and Periphery | 141 | ||
| Filmography | 143 | ||
| Notes | 143 | ||
| 10. ' Whose Fucking Park? Our Fucking Park!': Bohemian Brumaires ( Paris 1848/ East Village 1988) , Gentrification, and the R | 146 | ||
| Mind the 'Rent Gap' | 149 | ||
| Landgrabs and Manhunts | 152 | ||
| Bohemian Brumaires and the Authoritarian State | 154 | ||
| The Representational Work of Aids | 158 | ||
| Notes | 160 | ||
| 11. Metropolis of the Midlands | 162 | ||
| Myths of Birmingham | 162 | ||
| Urban Living as Bad | 165 | ||
| Rethinking the Urban | 168 | ||
| Urban Living as Cosmopolitan Living | 169 | ||
| Relocation of Economy | 170 | ||
| Metropolis | 171 | ||
| Notes | 174 | ||
| 12. Singapore Soil: A Completely Different Organisation of Space | 175 | ||
| Prelude | 175 | ||
| Singapore Soil: 'Greening Up' | 175 | ||
| The Points of Singapore (Transitlink Guide): Orchard | 177 | ||
| Space and Place | 178 | ||
| Points | 179 | ||
| Points 2 | 181 | ||
| The Empirial | 181 | ||
| Growing Up | 183 | ||
| Singapore | 184 | ||
| The Points of Singapore ( Transitlink Guide: Clementi Interchange) | 185 | ||
| ...And Its Discontents | 187 | ||
| One, Two, Three | 188 | ||
| Urbanism | 189 | ||
| City/ State? | 190 | ||
| Notes | 192 | ||
| Contributors | 196 | ||
| Maria Balshaw | 196 | ||
| Gargi Bhattacharyya | 196 | ||
| Peter Brooker | 196 | ||
| Al Deakin | 196 | ||
| Richard Ings | 196 | ||
| Liam Kennedy | 197 | ||
| Myrto Konstantarakos | 197 | ||
| John Phillips | 197 | ||
| Pascal Pinck | 197 | ||
| Stephen Shapiro | 197 | ||
| Douglas Tallack | 197 | ||
| Index | 198 | ||
| ACT UP, 159-60 | 159 | ||
| aerial photography, 62-3 | 62 | ||
| African American | 13 |