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Host: University of Chicago
Organizers: Sabine Haenni
Description:
The Cinema and the City: The emergence of the cinema in the
late-nineteenth century coincided with the emergence of a new kind of
metropolis, characterized, among other things, by new traffic
technologies (el, subway, automobile), new racial, ethnic, and sexual
regimes, and new urban planning. This panel will explore connections
between urban history and film history, urban theory and film theory,
and examine how the cinema is a product of urban modernity while at
the same time it also produces a new urban experience and culture,
and new urban subjectivities. Possible topics: the function of the
cinema in the city; urban geography and spatial analysis in film;
urban audiences; the cinematic narrativization of urban space; urban
genres (documentary, expose, comedy, musical, inner city film etc.);
the cinema and urban planning; urban performances; global cities;
film and urban tourism. Papers that mediate between and combine
methodologies developed in Film Studies and American Studies are
particularly welcome.
Date received: November 23, 2000
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