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Author Stein, Erica, author.

Title Seeing symphonically : avant-garde film, urban planning, and the utopian image of New York / Erica Stein.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Carving out an island -- Tomorrow has no smell : the city, regional planning, and the national day -- City/text : Weegee's New York, urban renewal, and the miniature-gigantic -- Secret passages : symphonies of the margins, slum clearance, and blight -- Spectacle in progress : symphonies of the center and advocacy planning -- Image/city/fracture : The cool world, the urban crisis, and nostalgia for modernity -- Coda: Repair.
Summary "Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject City symphonies (Motion pictures) -- United States -- History and criticism.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Rhythm in motion pictures.
Utopias in motion pictures.
Independent films -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
City and town life in motion pictures.
City planning.
City symphonies (Motion pictures)
Independent films.
Motion pictures.
Urban renewal.
Utopias in motion pictures.
New York (State) -- New York.
United States.
Chronological Term Since 1898
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Stein, Erica. Seeing symphonically Albany : State University of New York, [2021] 9781438486635 (DLC) 2021016729
ISBN 1438486642
9781438486642 (electronic bk.)
9781438486635 (hardcover)

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