ISBN:
9781137531759
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Filmurbia
Parallel Title:
Print version Forrest, David Filmurbia : Screening the Suburbs
DDC:
791.4301
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Suburbs
;
Suburbs in motion pictures
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Vorstadt
;
Film
Abstract:
Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction. Filmurbia: Cinema and the Suburbs -- Bibliography -- Section I: Suburban Realisms -- Chapter 2: `Society Stinks´: Suburban Alienation and Violence in the Early Films of Penelope Spheeris -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Dis-Locations: Mapping the Banlieue -- Generic Location? Banlieue Film -- Girl/Hood -- Conflict Zones -- Shifting Suburban Sites -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Mike Leigh and the Poetics of English Suburbia -- Three Films About the Suburbs -- Bibliography -- Section II: Suburban Nations -- Chapter 5: Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude in British Social Realism -- Understanding British Social Housing -- New Labour and the Problematisation of Council Estates -- Contemporary Representations of Social Housing -- Attack the Block as Radical Verisimilitude -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Gritty Urban: The Australian Beach as City Periphery in Cinema -- Introduction -- Nature or Nurture: The Urban or Natural Question -- Surfers Paradise: The Pleasure Dome -- Bondi Beach: The Underbelly -- Gritty Realism, `Sandy´ Urbanism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: The Suburban Plots of David Bezmozgis´ Films -- Motivation and Domesticity in Victoria Day and Natasha -- Filming Natasha in Suburban Toronto -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary -- Secondary -- Further Reading -- Section III: Slumurbia and Social Order -- Chapter 8: The Living Landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmrich´s Documentary Triptych -- A Living Landscape -- The Meta-modern Subject -- Subjective Realism: The Meta-modern Film-maker -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: System within the Suburb: Dharavi and Class Depiction in Bollywood -- Introduction -- Dharavi: What It Is and What It Is Not! -- Slum Gala in Foreign Productions
Abstract:
Desi Ghetto: Dharavi Through an Indian Lens -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: Outskirts of Reason: The Dream in Días de papel and Chircales -- The Filmed City -- Meeting the Suburb -- Filming the Suburb -- Vigo, Buñuel and the Revolution -- The Nightmare and the Hope -- Questioning the Centre -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section IV: Suburban Genres -- Chapter 11: Margins versus Centre: Cinematic Tensions and Conflict between the Suburbs and Paris -- From Urbanites Invading the Banlieue to the Changing Connotation of the Cinematic Journey Trope -- The Centre `Killing´ the Old Banlieue: Imposed Urban Developments as the Root of the Reversal in Cinematic Representations -- The New Architectural Form of the Social Housing Estate Engenders the Cinematic Downfall of the Suburbs -- From Endangered to Danger: The Negative Connotation of the Banlieue and Its Inhabitants as a Threat to the Urban Centre -- The Filmic Medium as Document of Changing Spatial Relationships and Terrain for Contestation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: The Suburban Australian Gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful -- Lake Mungo: `The Saddest Thing´ -- Beautiful: `Sometimes Girls Leave´ -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Claiming the Suburbs: Children and the Children´s Film Foundation in Post-War British Cinema -- Introduction -- The Formation of the CFF -- The Suburban Community of Cup Fever -- The Middle-Class Suburbs of Egghead´s Robot -- From CFF to CFTF -- The Violent Suburbs of Terry on the Fence -- CFTF Television Broadcasts -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Section V: Suburban Imaginaries -- Chapter 14: Sides of the Moon: Detroit and the Cinema of Proximity -- Comeback City Robocop -- The Automobile and the Cinema of Proximity -- Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon (2011) -- The Cinema of Proximity and the America Automobile Dream -- Bibliography
Abstract:
Chapter 15: Sirk and Suburbia: Queering the Straightest Space Imaginable -- Magnificent Obsession (1954) -- All That Heaven Allows (1955) -- Written on the Wind (1956) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16: `I Looked for You in My Closet Tonight´: Staging the Violence of the Real through `Candy-Colored´ Suburban Dreamsc... -- Small Town Suburban Sheen -- Noir´s Intrusion -- Ear -- Sandy Cries -- `I Looked for You in My Closet Tonight´ -- Candy-Colored Clown -- Yellow Suit -- There´s No Place Like Home -- Blue Velvet -- Welcome to the Neighborhood -- On Broadway -- Jane -- Wail on My Pecks -- Nazi Plates -- Getting High -- American Beauty -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters, filmographies and index. Description based on print version record
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