New York in Cinematic Imagination: The Agitated City

New York in Cinematic Imagination is an interdisciplinary study into urbanism and cinematic representations of the American metropolis in the twentieth century. It contextualizes spatial transformations and discourse about New York during the Great Depression and the Second World War, examining both imaginary narratives and documentary images of the city in film.

The book argues that alternating endorsements and critiques of the 1920s machine age city are replaced in films of the 1930s and 1...