ABSTRACT

This book’s chapters analyze aspects of urban politics with a combination of critical thinking (influenced by Walter Benjamin, Jacques Ranciere, Henri Lefebvre, and Achille Mbembe, among others) and readings of artistic genres (film, literature, and architecture). The coverage of cities includes, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Nairobi, Boston, Berlin and Hong Kong.

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

Genre and the City

chapter |16 pages

Genre and the City

Tokyo's Urban Space

chapter |20 pages

Policing Paris1

Private Publics and Architectural Media in Michael Haneke's Caché

chapter |19 pages

Crossing the Border

Art and Change in East Harlem

chapter |21 pages

Genre and the African City

The Politics and Poetics of Urban Rhythms

chapter |21 pages

Intercity Cinema

Hong Kong at the Berlinale