Title Seeing symphonically : avant-garde film, urban planning, and the utopian image of New York / Erica Stein

Published Albany : State University of New York, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Carving out an island -- Tomorrow has no smell : the city, regional planning, and the national day -- City/text : Weegee's New York, urban renewal, and the miniature-gigantic -- Secret passages : symphonies of the margins, slum clearance, and blight -- Spectacle in progress : symphonies of the center and advocacy planning -- Image/city/fracture : The cool world, the urban crisis, and nostalgia for modernity -- Coda: Repair Summary "Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject City symphonies (Motion pictures) -- United States -- History and criticism City and town life in motion pictures. Rhythm in motion pictures Utopias in motion pictures. Independent films -- United States -- History -- 20th century City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century City and town life in motion pictures City planning City symphonies (Motion pictures) Independent films Motion pictures Urban renewal Utopias in motion pictures New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures. New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951. New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951- New York (State) -- New York United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021016730 ISBN 1438486642 9781438486642

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