Visualizing the city / edited by Alan Marcus

1. The Art of Viewing: Film, City Views, and the Geography of Modernity Giuliana Bruno-- 2. The City Being Played With Francois Penz-- 3. Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will as City Film Alan Marcus-- 4. Imagining Beirut: An Exploration of Lebanese War Cinema Lina Khatib-- 5. Early Brazilian Cinema and the Reproduction of Rio de Janeiro Maite Conde-- 6. The City as Labyrinth: Urban Visuality and the Rhetorics of Walking in Postmodern Literary and Cinematic Fiction Stefan L. Brandt --7. Visualising late-20th and early-21st Century London Robert Tavernor-- 8. Imagining Venice: From Italy to Las Vegas Laura Bieger-- 9. Rain in the City Jill Stoner-- 10. Urban Borders on the West Pacific Rim Stephanie Hemelryk Donald --11. The VJ of the Everyday: Physically Remixing the Urban Visual Scott Burnham --12. Employee Entrances and Emergency Exits: Exposing the Invisible Imagery of Consumption David Michalski

Presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. This book contains several essays that explore visual representations of urbanism reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.