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The Cinema of Urban Crisis explores the relationships between cinema and urban crises in the United States and Europe in the 1970's. Discussing films by Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, Lawrence Webb reflects on processes of globalization and urban change that were beginning to transform cities like New York, London, and Berlin. Throughout, the 1970's are conceptualized as a historically distinctive period of crisis in capitalism, which reorganized urban landscapes and produced cultural innovation, technological change, and new configurations of power and resistance. Addressing themes of interest for film, cultural, and urban studies, this book is a compelling take on cinema from both sides of the Atlantic.

Cities and towns in motion pictures --- City and town life in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Social aspects --- History --- 20th century --- Film --- anno 1970-1979 --- West-Europa --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Western Europe --- United States --- Motion pictures. --- Urbanization. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- History and criticism --- Cinematic City, Urban crisis, City Space, Cultural Construction, Globalization. --- United States of America