Screening the City

The city has long been an important location for film-makers. Visually compelling and always “modern,” it is the perfect metaphor for man’s place in the contemporary world.

In this provocative collection of essays, a diverse range of films are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and paradigmatic urban experience in Europe and North America since the early twentieth century. Moscow, Leningrad, Berlin, Prague and Warsaw—sites of dramatic upheaval in the 1920s-1930s, and again ...