Welcome To Fear City Crime Film And The Urban Imagination 1970 1975

Author : Nathan Holmes,University of Chicago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1267603887

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Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film and the Urban Imagination, 1970--1975 by Nathan Holmes,University of Chicago Pdf

This dissertation considers the construction of space and place in a cycle of contemporary-set urban crime films of the early 1970s, exploring how cinema and the city interacted with each other in the context of ongoing urban crisis and decline. Moving between formal analysis and cultural history, this study places location-shot American crime films of this era in the context of a national consciousness that questioned the suitability of the city as both an architectural and social form. Focusing on motifs of investigation and pursuit, I show how the generic production of movement, encounter, and observation on streets, through abandoned buildings and lots, and on roadways is inflected by popular discourses of urban anxiety. In applying emerging visual techniques and cinematographic styles to urban places, however, crime films also connected the city to new energies, producing new ways of understanding the changing urban form. As the declining centrality of American cities led to the promulgation of urbanity as a lifestyle choice, crime films introduced ways of seeing that both sustained fears and limned urban horizons.

Author : Nathan Holmes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438471211

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Welcome to Fear City by Nathan Holmes Pdf

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public life—in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. “Rejecting the easy abstractions and postmodern playfulness of noir and neo-noir criticism, Holmes places 1970s crime films, as he says, ‘in relation to the urban context that was their location, setting, and subject.’ He does this brilliantly, convincingly, and uniquely.” — David Desser, former editor, Cinema Journal

Author : Roger A. Salerno
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476680903

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Fear City Cinema by Roger A. Salerno Pdf

This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay. "Fear City" is a term the NYPD used to label New York as a frightening environment, incapable of securing the safety of its residents. This book not only deals with the social problems evident in New York during this period, but also provides a study of how independent filmmakers were able to capture unsettling urban imagery, capitalizing on feelings of paranoia and dread. The author explores how the tone of these films reflects upon the anti-urbanism that led to the War on Crime, the mass exodus of working-class people from the city and mass incarceration of young Black men.

Author : Cortland Rankin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000647181

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Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York by Cortland Rankin Pdf

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive, and endlessly inspiring place. Drawing on mainstream, independent, documentary, and experimental films, the book offers a multifaceted account of the power of film to imagine the city’s decline and reimagine its potential. The book analyzes how filmmakers mobilized derelict space and various articulations of “nature” as settings and signifiers that decenter traditional understandings of the city to represent New York alternately as a desolate wasteland, a hostile wilderness, a refuge and playground for outcasts, a home to resilient and resourceful communities, a studio for artistic experimentation, an arcadia conducive to alternative social arrangements, and a complex ecosystem. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, media studies, urban cinema, urban studies, and eco-cinema.

Author : Stanley Corkin
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 019538279X

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Starring New York by Stanley Corkin Pdf

An urban history of the city that never sleeps through classic films such as Shaft, Annie Hall, Death Wish, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver, Starring New York showcases the city's lasting contribution to American cinema during a decade fraught with sociocultural changes.

Author : Michael Harris
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789046120

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Stay Alive by Michael Harris Pdf

When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But The Hunger Games was always more political. It’s since become the defining story for a generation that’s grown up with economic crisis and never ending war. An uber-rich ruling class gorge themselves in their gleaming high-tech Capitol, while working people are left behind to survive in exploited districts. Revolution is a forgotten hope kept at bay by brutal policing, aching poverty, and rigid class segregation. Suzanne Collins' dark vision has only become more relevant as The Hunger Games generation are thrown into an arena of increasingly brutal competition from which it seems like there is no escape, amid the climate crisis, global pandemics, rampant inequality, authoritarianism, media misinformation, and violence and cruelty as TV spectacle. It's no wonder the story continues to resonate. Stay Alive uses the story to shed light on our own age of extreme inequalities and climate collapse, in which elites use state power, compliant media, and violent spectacle to pacify their populations. The elite endgame is leading us towards our own version of Panem, an authoritarian state order we’ll call Capitolism. The world is catching fire. Elites have no intention of burning with us. And yet there is hope, which Michael Harris finds for his readers in revolution and radical solidarity, in the anti-authoritarian, empathetic, cooperative politics of a generation that has no choice but to rebel.

Author : Lawrence Webb
Publisher : Cities and Cultures
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 908964637X

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The Cinema of Urban Crisis by Lawrence Webb Pdf

The Cinema of Urban Crisis explores the relationships between cinema and urban crises in the United States and Europe in the 1970s. Discussing films by Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, Lawrence Webb reflects on processes of globalization and urban change that were beginning to transform cities like New York, London, and Berlin. Throughout, the 1970s are conceptualized as a historically distinctive period of crisis in capitalism, which reorganized urban landscapes and produced cultural innovation, technological change, and new configurations of power and resistance. Addressing themes of interest for film, cultural, and urban studies, this book is a compelling take on cinema from both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781927356593

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Film and the City by George Melnyk Pdf

Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo (1992), Mina Shum’s Double Happiness (1994), Clément Virgo’s Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and “urbanity”—the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity.

Author : Michael Harris
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789043686

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Welcome to the Rebellion by Michael Harris Pdf

What does it mean that our most popular modern myth is a radical left story about fighting corporate authoritarianism? From its roots in the 1960s new left, Star Wars still speaks to millions of people today. By design, the saga mirrors our own time and politics. A real empire of corporate domination has arisen within weakened and corrupted republics. Now it threatens our existence on a planetary scale. But the popularity of Star Wars also suggests that if we tell the right stories, we can welcome many more people to the rebellion and the fight for a better world...

Author : United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060034712

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The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society by United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice Pdf

This report of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- established by President Lyndon Johnson on July 23, 1965 -- addresses the causes of crime and delinquency and recommends how to prevent crime and delinquency and improve law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice. In developing its findings and recommendations, the Commission held three national conferences, conducted five national surveys, held hundreds of meetings, and interviewed tens of thousands of individuals. Separate chapters of this report discuss crime in America, juvenile delinquency, the police, the courts, corrections, organized crime, narcotics and drug abuse, drunkenness offenses, gun control, science and technology, and research as an instrument for reform. Significant data were generated by the Commission's National Survey of Criminal Victims, the first of its kind conducted on such a scope. The survey found that not only do Americans experience far more crime than they report to the police, but they talk about crime and the reports of crime engender such fear among citizens that the basic quality of life of many Americans has eroded. The core conclusion of the Commission, however, is that a significant reduction in crime can be achieved if the Commission's recommendations (some 200) are implemented. The recommendations call for a cooperative attack on crime by the Federal Government, the States, the counties, the cities, civic organizations, religious institutions, business groups, and individual citizens. They propose basic changes in the operations of police, schools, prosecutors, employment agencies, defenders, social workers, prisons, housing authorities, and probation and parole officers.

Author : Barbara Mennel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134219834

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Cities and Cinema by Barbara Mennel Pdf

Films about cities abound. They provide fantasies for those who recognize their city and those for whom the city is a faraway dream or nightmare. How does cinema rework city planners’ hopes and city dwellers’ fears of modern urbanism? Can an analysis of city films answer some of the questions posed in urban studies? What kinds of vision for the future and images of the past do city films offer? What are the changes that city films have undergone? Cities and Cinema puts urban theory and cinema studies in dialogue. The book’s first section analyzes three important genres of city films that follow in historical sequence, each associated with a particular city, moving from the city film of the Weimar Republic to the film noir associated with Los Angeles and the image of Paris in the cinema of the French New Wave. The second section discusses socio-historical themes of urban studies, beginning with the relationship of film industries and individual cities, continuing with the portrayal of war torn and divided cities, and ending with the cinematic expression of utopia and dystopia in urban science fiction. The last section negotiates the question of identity and place in a global world, moving from the portrayal of ghettos and barrios to the city as a setting for gay and lesbian desire, to end with the representation of the global city in transnational cinematic practices. The book suggests that modernity links urbanism and cinema. It accounts for the significant changes that city film has undergone through processes of globalization, during which the city has developed from an icon in national cinema to a privileged site for transnational cinematic practices. It is a key text for students and researchers of film studies, urban studies and cultural studies.

Author : A. Darien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137321947

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Becoming New York's Finest by A. Darien Pdf

After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing.

Author : Ted Kitchen,Richard H Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134549252

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Planning for Crime Prevention by Ted Kitchen,Richard H Schneider Pdf

Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues and relates them to the contribution that urban planners and participative planning processes can make in response to these problems. Its focus is thus on the extent to which crime opportunities can be prevented or reduced through the design, planning and management of the built environment. The perspective of the book is transatlantic and comparative, not only because ideas and inspiration in this and many other fields increasingly move between countries but also because there is a great deal of relevant theoretical material and practice in both the USA and the UK which has not previously been pulled together in this systemic manner.

Author : Keith D. Harries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UOM:39015047569994

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Mapping Crime by Keith D. Harries Pdf

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521646715

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Crime Films by Thomas Leitch Pdf

This book surveys the entire range of crime films, including important subgenres such as the gangster film, the private eye film, film noir, as well as the victim film, the erotic thriller, and the crime comedy. Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger. Analyzing how each of the subgenres establishes oppositions among its ritual antagonists, he shows how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century. This blurring, Leitch maintains, reflects and fosters a deep social ambivalence towards crime and criminals, while the criminal, victim and avenger characters effectively map the shifting relations between subgenres, such as the erotic thriller and the police film, within the larger genre of crime film that informs them all.