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Filipcevic, Vojislava. "Spatial discourses in film and social production of urban space: A study of American films with urban, rural, and suburban motifs 1929-1950" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p185227_index.html>

Filipcevic, V. , 2007-08-11 "Spatial discourses in film and social production of urban space: A study of American films with urban, rural, and suburban motifs 1929-1950" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p185227_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The paper represents a synthesis of my thesis that examines the linkages between on the one hand, urban transformations and socio-political crises, and on the other, discourses and visions of the city in American films from the 1920s to the late 1940s. I studied urban planning discourses and interventions of the period of study, and analyzed over 30 films in detail (and reference 20 additional related works) by looking at changes in three critical spatial motifs: the New York City skyline, rural-urban contrasts, and public vs. private spaces in films set in suburban environments. I argue that endorsements and critiques in the 1920s of the machine age city are replaced in the films of the 1930s and the 1940s by complex tropes of urban ambivalence. By looking at changing visions of the built environment in film, my study uncovers ambivalent and tension-wrought cultural discourse of simultaneous adulation and condemnation of the metropolis in this critical historical period that preceded suburbanization and urban renewal.

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