Cities, words and images : from Poe to Scorsese / Patrizia Lombardo.

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Main Author: Lombardo, Patrizia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Series:Language, discourse, society.
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Table of Contents:
  • Edgar Allan Poe: the domain of artifice
  • Van Gogh and Hofmannsthal: colours and silence
  • Baudelaire, Haussmann, Fustel de Coulanges: the modern metropolis and the ancient city
  • Trieste as frontier: from Slataper to Bazlen and Del Giudice
  • Aldo Rossi: the white walls of the city
  • Massimo Cacciari and the philosophy of the city
  • Absence and revelation: photography as the art of nostalgia
  • The image versus the visible: from Baudelaire's The painter of modern life to David Lynch's Lost highway
  • Martin Scorsese and the rhythm of the metropolis.