a journal of cities and culture
The modernist imagination often filled the city of the future with an abundance of nocturnal urban lights. Massive screens, searchlights, illuminated facades, and other electric lights crowd the mise-en-scene of science fiction films and speculative renderings of the metropolis of …
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How is it that moving images convey a sense of a city? This is an appropriate question for film studies at a time when cinema as a mode of viewership seems a vestigial part of twentieth century urban life. For …
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Contemporary urban environments offer a wealth of rich social and cultural narratives for analysis. Cities lend themselves to media practices of photography and film, providing aesthetic representations of contemporary urban life. The city is not only a geographic place, it …
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