The Divided City and Its New Cinemas, 1920-1980

Amy Murphy (Autor)

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296 Seiten

2026
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04971-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Amy Murphy is a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	The History of Media and Communication
Zusatzinfo	97 total images: 25 color images, 66 b&w images, 6 color maps
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-04971-3 / 0252049713
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04971-2 / 9780252049712
Zustand	Neuware