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The city and its representations in film and photography provide unique perspectives from which one can interpret urban places in ways that the approaches of the traditional social sciences often do not permit. Above all, film provided a unique lens through which to analyze contemporary change or urban histories in ways that were not at the time used in formal academic discourses. Some of these depictions were fictional, narrative story lines involving crime capers, car chases, and the noir side of urban life; others, set in suburbia, were gentle family comedies, involving on-going light-hearted tensions between the different values of members of a family or a circle of friends; while others, documentary or realist in tone, demonstrated in a much more graphic way, perhaps, the consequences of change, the inadequacy of the state, or the exclusion of societies in particular settings.
Author(s): Tewdwr-Jones M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Berkeley Planning Journal
Year: 2013
Volume: 26
Issue: 1
Pages: 86-106
ISSN (print): 1047-5192
Publisher: University of California
