Detailansicht
Fictions of the City
Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris, Language, Discourse, Society
ISBN/EAN: 9780230579767
Umbreit-Nr.: 9050940
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: vi, 204 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 29.09.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
- Zusatztext
- Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.
- Kurztext
- Strong interest in 'the city' in Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Literature Moves beyond previous analysis of the flaneur and of public urban spaces to focus on the home and particularly the development of mass housing Wide historical range, moving from Haussman's rebuilding of Paris in the 1850s to the postwar Parisian banlieue, and from the nineteenth-century London suburb to the postwar London council estate Looks at a wide range of texts, encompassing novels and films in both English and French e.g. Orwell's Coming Up For Air and the films La Haine and Cathy Come Home
- Autorenportrait
- MATTHEW TAUNTON has taught at University College London, Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths College, Central St Martins and the Open University, UK. His research interests lie in British and French literature from the nineteenth century to the present, urban studies, media history and film. His journalism appears in the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.