Includes bibliographical references and index.

The role played by the city is central to a wide variety of films. In everyday experience, cities frequently seem to possess a cinematic quality. Yet the relationship between city and cinema has been neglected in both film and urban studies. The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume have sought to remedy this situation by offering a detailed and wide-ranging look at the 'cinematic city'. Covering a diverse selection of films, genres, cities, and historical periods, the innovative and thought-provoking essays gathered together here offer numerous insights to those interested in cities, film, and their conjunction.

{u01C2}t Chinese boxes and Russian dolls : tracking the elusive cinematic city / {u01C2}r Colin McArthur -- {u01C2}t City views : the voyage of film images / {u01C2}r Giuliana Bruno -- {u01C2}t Of plans and planners : documentary film and the challenge of the urban future, 1935-52 / {u01C2}r John R. Gold and Stephen V. Ward -- {u01C2}t Something more than night : tales of the noir city / {u01C2}r Frank Krutnik -- {u01C2}t Urban confidential : the lurid city of the 1950s / {u01C2}r Will Straw -- {u01C2}t Cinećities in the sixties / {u01C2}r Antony Easthope -- {u01C2}t From ramble city to the screening of the eye : Blade runner, death and symbolic exchange / {u01C2}r Marcus A. Doel and David B. Clarke -- {u01C2}t "People in parentheses" : space under pressure in the postmodern city / {u01C2}r Elisabeth Mahoney -- {u01C2}t Mainly in cities and at night : some notes on cities and film / {u01C2}r Rob Lapsley -- {u01C2}t Piecing together what remains of the cinematic city / {u01C2}r James Hay -- {u01C2}t Maps, movies, musics and memory / {u01C2}r Iain Chambers.