TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clapp,James A.
TI  - The American city in the cinema
SN  - 9781412851480 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
AV  - PN 1995.9 C589a 2013
U1  - 791.43/6556 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Transaction Publishers
KW  - City and town life in motion pictures
KW  - Cities and towns in motion pictures
KW  - Ciudades y pueblos en el cine
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Cine
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia y crítica
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index; Preface -- The American city in the cinema: an introduction -- An urban medium -- Immigrants, the city, and the cinema -- Small towns in a metropolitan world -- How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? -- Suburbia and the American dream -- Growing up urban -- Family values, city ways -- Politics, on-screen and off -- Mean streets and cities of night -- Are you talking to me? New York and the cinema of urban alienation -- Class, race and ethnicity in the city and cinema -- The urban woman: labor, liberation and love in the cinematic city -- City work -- Nature, technophobia and the cinema of the urban future -- The city as cinema
N2  - The American city and the American movie industry grew up together in the early decades of the twentieth century, making film an ideal medium through which to better understand urban life
ER  -