Cities and Cultures
About the Book Series
Cities and Cultures is an interdisciplinary book series concerned with all forms of cultural expression, practice, and transformation associated with modern and contemporary cities. Global and comparative in scope, the series takes a special interest in the urban-cultural dimensions of inequality, sustainability, technology, and creativity.
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected]) if you have any questions about the series or wish to submit a book proposal.
The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City
1st Edition
By Lawrence Webb
December 08, 2014
In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of planning, economics and urban theory. At the same time, film industries experienced a parallel process of transition, the effects of which rippled ...
Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeroen de Kloet, Lena Scheen
May 29, 2013
China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible ...