The Agitated City: Urban Ambiguity and New York's Noir Metropolis.

The article discusses the study of film noir, the new trope of the agitated city, a city linked to social anxieties related to class, racial differences and gender emancipation. Topics discussed include urban decline, big city environments, films which shows suburbanization and on-locations cinemato...

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Published in:	Quarterly Review of Film & Video Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 372 - 397
Main Author:	Filipcevic Cordes, Vojislava
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May/Jun2018
Subjects:	Social criticism Urbanization Suburbanization Race discrimination Film noir Social status
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