Modernity and Metropolis: Writing, Film and Urban Formations

by Peter Brooker

Book Overview

A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker draws on Beck and Giddens to propose a 'reflexive modernism' which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. The principal cities considered are London and New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Writers considered include Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333801687
• ISBN13: 9780333801680
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"