World cinema

摘要

Screening the City could come with no higher endorsement than the quote from urban theorist Mike Davis printed on its cover: 'A wonderfully fresh and kaleidoscopic examination of the strange alchemy between celluloid and asphalt'. While Davis is not one of the contributors to this book, his City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear contain some of the more radical ideas about that most filmed and filmic of cities: Los Angeles. As the most analysed, most fantasised and quintessentially Post-Modern city ― and, coincidentally, home of a global movie industry ― it would be difficult to produce a book like Screening the City without mentioning Los Angeles. Moreover, it is somehow impossible to imagine Los Angeles existing outside the cinematic world.