文档介绍：Noir Urbanisms
Publications in partnership with
the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University
The Spaces of the Modern City, edited by Kevin Kruse and Gyan Prakash
Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern Global City,
edited by Gyan Prakash
Noir Urbanisms
Dystopic Images of the Modern City
EDITED BY
Gyan Prakash
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Princeton and Oxford
Copyright © 2010 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-14643-0 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-691-14644-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Film noir—History and criticism. 2. Cities and towns in motion pictures. 3. City and town life
in motion pictures. I. Prakash, Gyan.
2010
'655—dc22 2010002331
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
This book has posed in Minion with Myriad display
Printed on acid-free paper. b
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Introduction: Imaging the Modern City, Darkly 1
GYAN PRAKASH
Modernism and Urban Dystopia
1 The Phantasm of the Apocalypse: Metropolis and Weimar Modernity 17
ANTON KAES
2 Sounds Like Hell: Beyond Dystopian Noise 31
JAMES DONALD
3 Tlatelolco: Mexico City’s Urban Dystopia 53
RUBÉN GALLO
The Aesthetics of the Dark City
4 A Regional Geography of Film Noir:
Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen 75
MARK SHIEL
5 Oh No, There Goes Tokyo: Recreational Apocalypse
and the City in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture 104
WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI
6 Postsocialist Urban Dystopia? 127
LI ZHANG
7 Friction, Collision, and the Grotes