The divided city and its new cinemas, 1920-1980 / Amy Murphy.
| Author/creator | Murphy, Amy |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2026. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | The history of media and communication |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction 1 -- Ch 1: The City as Subject (Manhatta, 1921) 20 -- Ch 2: From City Symphonies to Suburban Citadels (The City, 1939) 59 -- Ch 3: Inventing the "Slum" and the New Downtown (The Exiles, 1961) 96 -- Ch 4: Life in the Hypersegregated Ghetto (Killer of Sheep, 1977) 136 -- Ch 5: The Barrio and the Bilingual City (Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!, 1976) 175 -- Ch 6: Fugitive Identity and the Transnational Enclave (Chan is Missing, 1982) 212 -- Afterword 252 -- Notes -- Appendix: Maps of Six Key Geographies -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Film offers a powerful witness to the historical effects of segregation. Twentieth-century American urban policy favored "white flight" to the suburbs while confining other racial and ethnic groups in urban cores. Mainstream cinema, in turn, perpetuated racial stereotypes that justified this confinement. Amy Murphy revisits this history via six independent films, each mapping a distinct urban geography at a particular moment in the century. Murphy's analysis reveals that certain veins of postwar independent filmmaking grew out of specific policy failures of the American city. With increased access to media production, such filmmakers created new cinemas from within the segregated city that expanded avenues for self-representation. Informed and insightful, The Divided City and Its New Cinemas, 1920-1980 examines how often-raw independent films pioneered cinematic exploration of identities impacted by space and time, and by geography and history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025047025 |
| ISBN | 9780252049712 cloth |
| ISBN | 9780252089367 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |