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Author Shapiro, Michael J

Title The Time of the City : Politics, Philosophy and Genre
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (227 pages)
Series Interventions
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; 1 Introduction: Geophilosophy, aethetics, and the city; 2 The now time(s) of the global city: Displacing Hegel's geopolitical narrative; 3 Managing urban security: City walls and policing metis; 4 Neo-Noir and urban domesticity: The Wachowski brothers' Bound; 5 Gothic Philadelphia: Divided subjects and fractionated assemblages; 6 Bodies and the city: Washington DC; 7 Walt Whitman and the ethnopoetics of New York488; 8 Inter-city cinema: Hong Kong at the Berlinale; Notes; Index
Summary Engaging with critical theory, poststructuralist perspectives, cultural studies, film theory and urban studies, the book provides stunning insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity and sovereignty
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Subject Cities and towns -- Case studies
Sociology, Urban -- Case studies
Urban geography -- Case studies
Cities and towns
Sociology, Urban
Urban geography
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203852613
0203852613
1282656414
9781282656413