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Urban Sociolinguistics The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience

Urban Sociolinguistics The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience

From Los Angeles to Tokyo Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labov’s famous New York Study the authors demonstrate how language use in these areas is changing based on belief systems behavioural norms day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices. All chapters are written by key figures in sociolinguistics and presents the personal stories of individuals using linguistic means to go about their daily communications in diverse sociolinguistic systems such as: extremely large urban conurbations like Cairo Tokyo and Mexico City smaller settings like Paris and Sydney less urbanised places such as the Western Netherlands Randstad area and Kohima in India. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact code-switching and mixing language and identity language policy and planning and social networks this is key reading for students and researchers in the areas of multilingualism and super-diversity within sociolinguistics applied linguistics and urban studies. | Urban Sociolinguistics The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience

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Haruki Murakami Storytelling and Productive Distance

Haruki Murakami Storytelling and Productive Distance

Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to cross into a different context through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His belief in the importance of monogatari is closely linked to his generation’s experience of the counter-­-culture movement in the late1960s and his research on the 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack caused by the Aum shinrikyo cult major events in postwar Japan that revealed many people’s desire for a stable narrative to interact with and form their identity from. | Haruki Murakami Storytelling and Productive Distance

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Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential security concerns the case of Japan was altogether different. Japan never was a threat to Sweden militarily or economically. Nevertheless Stockholm maintained a close relationship with Tokyo until Japan’s surrender in 1945. This book explores the reasons for that and therefore provides a study on the rationale and the value of neutrality in the Long Second World War. Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War is a valuable resource for scholars of the Second World War and of the history of neutrality. | Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

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Immigration and Categorical Inequality Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity

Immigration and Categorical Inequality Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity

Immigration and Categorical Inequality explains the general processes of migration the categorization of newcomers in urban areas as racial or ethnic others and the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality among groups. Inspired by the pioneering work of Charles Tilly on chain migration transnational communities trust networks and categorical inequality renowned migration scholars apply Tilly’s theoretical concepts using empirical data gathered in different historical periods and geographical areas ranging from New York to Tokyo and from Barcelona to Nepal. The contributors of this volume demonstrate the ways in which social boundary mechanisms produce relational processes of durable categorical inequality. This understanding is an important step to stop treating differences between certain groups as natural and unchangeable. This volume will be valuable for scholars students and the public in general interested in understanding the periodic rise of nativism in the United States and elsewhere. | Immigration and Categorical Inequality Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity

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Urban Regeneration in China Institutional Innovation in Guangzhou Shenzhen and Shanghai

Urban Regeneration in China Institutional Innovation in Guangzhou Shenzhen and Shanghai

The book examines institutional innovation in urban regeneration in Guangzhou Shenzhen and Shanghai three Chinese cities that have experienced sweeping changes in recent years providing an ideal guide to the development of urban regeneration practices in China. As a starting point the book revisits relevant theoretical developments and the institutional experiences of urban regeneration in some Asian pioneer cities and regions such as Hong Kong Taipei Tokyo and Singapore. Moving on to the Chinese mainland cities themselves the core comparative study investigates the institutional systems key policies planning formulations and implementation paths in the urban regeneration process of the three cities. Gains and losses that have resulted from each city's institutional construction and reformation are discussed as well as the underlying reasons for these. Drawing on these case studies and comparisons the book puts forward some generic rules for urban regeneration institutional innovation offering a valuable frame of reference for other cities and regions. The book will appeal to scholars interested in urban regeneration and renewal as well as urban planners architects policymakers and urban development administrators. | Urban Regeneration in China Institutional Innovation in Guangzhou Shenzhen and Shanghai

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Queer Spaces An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories

Queer Spaces An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories

An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. Queer people have always found ways to exist and be together and there will always be a need for queer spaces. In this lavishly illustrated volume Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell have gathered together a community of contributors to share stories of spaces that range from the educational to the institutional to the re-appropriated and many more besides. With historic contemporary and speculative examples from around the world Queer Spaces recognises LGBTQIA+ life past and present as strong vibrant vigorous and worthy of its own place in history. Looking forward it suggests visions of what form these spaces may take in the future to continue uplifting queer lives. Featured spaces include: Black Lesbian and Gay Centre London Category Is Books Glasgow Christopher Street New York Coppelia Havana New Sazae Tokyo ONE Institute for Homophile Studies Los Angeles Pop-Up spaces Dhaka Queer House Party Online Santiago Apóstol Cathedral Managua Trans Memory Archive Buenos Aires Victorian Pride Centre Melbourne | Queer Spaces An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories

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Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities From 1800 to Present Day

Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities From 1800 to Present Day

This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied. The case studies presented offer an insight into why a certain housing type flourished in a specific city and the variety span across cities in the world where distinct housing types have prevailed. It also pursues how housing types developed evolved and helped define the city looks into how dwellers inhabited their dwellings and analyses how the housing typologies correlates in a contemporary context. The typologies studied are back-to-backs in Birmingham; tenements in London; Haussmann Apartment in Paris; tenements in New York; tong lau in Hong Kong; perimeter block linear block and block-edge in Berlin; perimeter block and solitaire in Amsterdam; space-enclosing structure in Beijing; micro house in Tokyo and high-rise in Toronto. | Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities From 1800 to Present Day

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Popularizing Japanese TV The Cultural Economic and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse

Popularizing Japanese TV The Cultural Economic and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse

Over the past years the view has emerged that Japanese TV is dominated by an infotainment mode of discourse. The book extends this view detailing and interpreting the cultural economic and emotional dimensions of this communication phenomenon from an ethnographic perspective. It examines the complex ways in which infotainment works in an advanced capitalist society. As such this is more than a book about Japan; it is a work that fits within media ethnography and cultural studies and appeals to readers interested in the question of how television at the heart of the global media stream successfully turns into a persuasive intimate and powerful member of a televisual audience-family through carefully engineered televisual discourses linguistic/non-linguistic component audiovisual strategies and economic and cultural elements. Drawing on ethnographic observations in TV stations in two major cities Sendai and Tokyo the book reveals several essential components embedded within infotainment discourse. Thus this book not only provides a panoramic picture of a core phenomenon in Japanese broadcasting since the 2000s but also discusses how both cultural discourses and economic considerations influence contemporary television broadcasting. | Popularizing Japanese TV The Cultural Economic and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse

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International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of “Urban Diseases” Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin

International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of “Urban Diseases” Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin

With an integration of theories comparative and empirical studies this book aims to find a treatment for Beijing’s “urban diseases” and coordinate a low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. Unprecedented industrialization and unconventional urbanization caused a series of “urban diseases” for developing cities across the globe. By summarizing and exploring the evolution and phased characteristics of “urban diseases” the author implements theories across classical sociology human ecology community school and low-carbon city as the base for policy recommendations. This book also provides in-depth examinations and comparative studies of other metropolises’ experiences in controlling “urban diseases”. Cities such as New York London and Tokyo were modeled to propose the most appropriate low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. With a focus on developing cities in Northern China this book will be a great read to all scholars and students of environmental studies development studies urban studies and contemporary China studies. It will also be a great addition for those who are interested in social conflicts and economic development. | International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of “Urban Diseases” Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin

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Japanese Machizukuri and Community Engagement History Method and Practice

Japanese Machizukuri and Community Engagement History Method and Practice

Over the past few decades Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters an increasing aging population declining birth rates and widening social disparities. These issues have served to highlight gaps left by top-down governance approaches and the urgent need to create resilient societies using more traditional models. Japanese “machizukuri” has developed to become an exceptional example of bottom-up creative approaches based on collective action and use of local resources. Since its evolution in the 1960s machizukuri has come to define diverse and creative community-driven management models by which local communities are enabled to actively tackle problem-solving. Including contributions from experts directly engaged in the process this book explores the original development of machizukuri in Japan its diffusion through East Asia and the positive outcomes of this transfer. Combining theoretical explanations with practical case studies from pre-disaster planning in Tokyo to the revitalization of historic towns and rural areas around Japan the book looks at specific solutions tools and links between academics communities organizations governmental bodies and the private sector. It will appeal to researchers in planning community engagement architecture urban design and sustainable development. | Japanese Machizukuri and Community Engagement History Method and Practice

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Sport and Crime Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport

Sport and Crime Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport

This is the first book to explore fully the connections between sport studies and criminology opening up critical new frontiers in the study of sport and crime. Rooted firmly in established critical criminological traditions the book also employs insights from emerging theoretical frameworks such as cultural criminology governmentality theory and critical security studies to make better sense of a range of transnational and contemporary cases events and trends that reveal in different ways the crimes and harms that are present in sport. Empirically grounded including case studies of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games it explores emerging themes in contemporary sport including but not limited to corruption doping youth crime terrorism violence and transgression and human rights abuses. Sport and Crime consciously pushes the boundaries of what might be considered the critical criminology of sport. This is an essential text for any course on sport and crime and invaluable reading for any student or researcher with an interest in the sociology of sport sport development sport policy the politics of sport critical criminology or socio-legal studies. | Sport and Crime Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport

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Vinyl The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

Vinyl The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

Recent years have seen not just a revival but a rebirth of the analogue record. More than merely a nostalgic craze vinyl has become a cultural icon. As music consumption migrated to digital and online this seemingly obsolete medium became the fastest-growing format in music sales. Whilst vinyl never ceased to be the favorite amongst many music lovers and DJs from the late 1980s the recording industry regarded it as an outdated relic consigned to dusty domestic corners and obscure record shops. So why is vinyl now experiencing a ‘rebirth of its cool’?Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward explore this question by combining a cultural sociological approach with insights from material culture studies. Presenting vinyl as a multifaceted cultural object they investigate the reasons behind its persistence within our technologically accelerated culture. Informed by media analysis urban ethnography and the authors’ interviews with musicians DJs sound engineers record store owners collectors and cutting-edge label chiefs from a range of metropolitan centres renowned for thriving music scenes including London New York Tokyo Melbourne and especially Berlin what emerges is a story of a modern icon. | Vinyl The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

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Disability the Media and the Paralympic Games

Disability the Media and the Paralympic Games

This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities. It sheds important new light on our understanding of media production and its complex interactions with sport and wider society. Drawing on political economy and cultural studies the book explores why and how a marginalised group was brought into the mainstream by the media and the key influencing factors and decision-making processes. Featuring interviews with key people involved in the television and digital production structures as well as organisational archives it helps us to understand the interplay between creativity and commerce between editorial and marketing workflows and about the making of meaning. The book also looks at coverage of the Rio Paralympics and ahead to the Tokyo Games and at changing global perceptions of disability through sport. This is fascinating reading for any advanced students researchers or sport management or media professionals looking to better understand the media production process or the significance of sport and disability in wider society. | Disability the Media and the Paralympic Games

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The Evolution of Carbon Markets Design and Diffusion

The Evolution of Carbon Markets Design and Diffusion

Carbon markets are developing and expanding around the world but how and to what extent is their design shaped by learning and interaction between them? How do these markets function and what is the role of design? Carrying out a ground-breaking analysis of their design and diffusion this book covers all the major carbon market systems and processes around the world: the EU RGGI California Tokyo New Zealand Australia China South Korea and Kazakhstan. It offers a systematic in-depth discussion and comparison of the key design features in these systems with expert contributors exploring how and to what extent these features have been shaped by central policy diffusion mechanisms and domestic politics. By focussing on the specific design features of the instruments used this volume makes important contributions to diffusion theory highlighting how ETS diffusion processes more often have resulted in design divergence than convergence and discussing the implications of this finding for the vision of linked systems in the post-Paris era. It will be of significant interest to a broad audience interested in the emergence evolution functioning and interaction of carbon markets. | The Evolution of Carbon Markets Design and Diffusion

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Japan in Transformation 1945–2020

Japan in Transformation 1945–2020

Japan in Transformation 1945–2020 has been newly revised and updated to examine the 3. 11 natural and nuclear disasters Emperor Akihito’s abdication Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s legacies the 2019 World Cup and the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to COVID-19. Through a chronological approach this volume traces the development of Japan’s history from the US Occupation in 1945 to the political consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. It evaluates the impact of the Lost Decade of the 1990s as well as key issues such as the demographic crisis war memory regional relations security concerns constitutional revision and political stagnation. In response to post-2010 developments such as Abenomics the demise of the Democratic Party of Japan and immigration policy chapters have been reassessed to account for changes in politics the role of women Japan’s relationships with Asia and how and why policies have fallen short of stated goals. Overall the volume reveals how Japan transformed into one of the largest economic and technological powers of the modern world. With a Chronology Who’s who and Glossary this edition is the ideal resource for all students interested in Japanese politics economy and society since the end of World War II.

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Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

Amid Japan’s political turbulence in 1960 seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzō Tange’s Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to an unprecedented scale. Metabolists’ visionary schemes of the city gave birth to revolutionary design paradigms which reinvented the discourse of modern Japanese architecture and propelled it through the years of Economic Miracle to a global prominence. Their utopian concepts which often envisaged the sea and the sky as human habitats of the future reflected fundamental issues of cultural transformation and addressed environmental crises of the postindustrial society. This new edition expands Zhongjie Lin’s pathbreaking account on Tange and Metabolism centered at the intersection of urbanism and utopianism. The thorough historical survey from Metabolism’s inauguration at the 1960 World Design Conference to the apex of the movement at Expo ’70 and further to the recent demolition of Nakagin Capsule Tower leads to a definition of three Metabolist urban paradigms – megastructure group form and ruins – which continue to inspire experiments in architecture city design and conservation. Kenzō Tange and the Metabolist Movement is a key book for architectural and urban historians architects and all those interested in avant-garde design Japanese architecture and contemporary urbanism. | Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

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Alun Hoddinott A Source Book

Alun Hoddinott A Source Book

Alun Hoddinott is the most important living Welsh composer and one of the most distinguished and prolific composers of his generation internationally. His works have been performed in major centres as far afield as Tokyo and Berlin Melbourne and Leipzig New York and Venice as well as the major festivals in Wales and England. He is one of the very few composers to have been commissioned to compose a concerto for Mstislav Rostropovitch. Born in Bargoed Glamorganshire in August 1929 Alun Hoddinott started to play the violin and compose at an early age. Some of his works were performed and broadcast whilst he was a student at University College Cardiff and he later studied with the Australian composer and pianist Arthur Benjamin. His first major success was his Clarinet Concerto No. 1 given by Gervaise de Peyer and the Halle Orchestra under John Barbirolli at the 1954 Cheltenham Music Festival. This Source Book lists all Hoddinott's compositions from 1946 to 2005 almost 60 years of phenomenal output and shows he has achieved a mastery of composition which embraces almost every musical medium. With information given on first performances manuscript locations and recordings in addition to details of composition dates authors/librettists durations commissions and dedications amongst much else this book is a key reference for all those interested in Alun Hoddinott and his music. | Alun Hoddinott A Source Book

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Japan’s Effectiveness as a Geo-Economic Actor Navigating Great-Power Competition

Japan’s Effectiveness as a Geo-Economic Actor Navigating Great-Power Competition

Geo-economic strategy – deploying economic instruments to secure foreign-policy aims and to project power – has long been a key element of statecraft. In recent years it has acquired even greater salience given China’s growing antagonism with the United States and the willingness of both Beijing and Washington to wield economic power in their confrontation. This trend has particular significance for Japan given its often tense political relationship with China which remains its largest trading partner. While Japan’s post-war geo-economic performance often failed to match its status as one of the world’s largest economies more recently Tokyo has demonstrated increased geo-economic agency and effectiveness. In this Adelphi book Yuka Koshino and Robert Ward draw on multiple disciplines – including economics political economy foreign policy and security policy – and interviews with key policymakers to examine Japan’s geo-economic power in the context of great-power competition between the US and China. They examine Japan’s previous underperformance how Tokyo’s understanding of geo-economics has evolved and given constraints on its national power-projection what actions Japan might feasibly take to become a more effective geo-economic actor. Their conclusions will be of direct interest not only for all those concerned with Japanese grand strategy and the Asia-Pacific but also for those middle powers seeking to navigate great-power competition in the coming decades. | Japan’s Effectiveness as a Geo-Economic Actor Navigating Great-Power Competition

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The Beatles in Japan

The Beatles in Japan

Following their first tour to Japan in 1966 the Beatles would become an important part of Japan’s postwar cultural development and its deepening relationship with the West. By the 1960s Japan’s dramatic rise in prosperity and the self-confidence of the country’s ‘economic miracle’ period were yet to come; it was not at this stage considered a fully-fledged partner of the West. All these potential developments were consolidating around the time of the 1966 tour. The Beatles' concerts in Tokyo contributed to the construction of a new Japanese national identity and introduced Japan as a new potential market to UK and US music producers broadening the country’s transnational cultural links. This book explores the Beatles’ engagement with Japan within the larger context of the country’s increased global connection and large-scale economic social and cultural change. It describes the great impact of the Beatles’ contentious 1966 tour which took place amid public displays of both euphoric ‘Beatlemania’ and angry protests and discusses the lasting impression of this tour on Japanese culture and identity to the present day. The Beatles’ relationship with Japan did not end after their departure; this book also examines the Beatles’ subsequent contacts with Japan including John Lennon’s marriage and artistic partnership with Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney’s later Japanese tours and the warm reception the ex Beatles and their musical legacy have received over the years. | The Beatles in Japan

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New Directions in Japan’s Security Non-U.S. Centric Evolution

New Directions in Japan’s Security Non-U.S. Centric Evolution

While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War Japan has almost unnoticed been building security ties with other partners in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan’s security. This book explains why this is happening. Japan pursued security isolationism during the Cold War but the US was the exception. Japan hosted US bases and held joint military exercises even while shunning contacts with other militaries. Japan also made an exception to its weapons export ban to allow exports to the US. Yet since the end of the Cold War Japan’s security has undergone a quiet transformation moving away from a singular focus on the US as its sole security partner. Tokyo has begun diversifying its security ties. This book traces and explains this diversification. The country has initiated security dialogues with Asian neighbors assumed a leadership role in promoting regional multilateral security cooperation and begun building bilateral security ties with a range of partners from Australia and India to the European Union. Japan has even lifted its ban on weapons exports and co-development with non-US partners. This edited volume explores this trend of decreasing US centrality alongside the continued and perhaps even growing security (inter) dependence with the US. New Directions in Japan’s Security is an essential resource for scholars focused on Japan’s national security. It will also interest on a wider basis those wishing to understand why Japan is developing non-American directions in its security strategy. | New Directions in Japan’s Security Non-U. S. Centric Evolution

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Cities and Cinema

Cities and Cinema

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space. The book demonstrates the importance of the filmic depiction of capitals for national cinemas in the twentieth century and analyzes the transnational transfer of cinematic images surrounding global cities in the twenty-first century. Cities and Cinema covers the different facets of the cinematic depiction of cities. It rehearses distinct methodologies and offers a survey of the history of the cinematic city. The book also deepens our understanding of tropes and narrative conventions that shape films about urban settings and that reflect the transformation of cities throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a discussion of the Weimar “street film ” it analyzes how the city film defined modernity. The book outlines the sociological context and the aesthetic features of so-called film noir made in 1940s Hollywood and depicting Los Angeles. Paris became the site for the development of auteur cinema which repeatedly depicts characters moving through the city. Tokyo took up noir to signal modern crime. The volume delineates how filmic genres such as science fiction comment on the present by imagining future forms of urban living. After analyzing how cinema captures the relationship between sexual identity and urban anonymity migration and urban space and marginalized ethnic and sexual identity in ghetto films the book emphasizes transnational dynamics and global cities in the twenty-first century. Its conclusion points to the increasing virtual mediation of cities with new media. Cities and Cinema offers a historical overview of the development of films about cities and a theoretical approach to the intersection of urban studies and film studies. This title is designed as a textbook primarily for second-year undergraduate students in Film/Media studies Urban studies as well as Geography and Planning.

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