Research Catalog

Title

Inert cities : globalization, mobility and suspension in visual culture / edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Christoph Lindner.

Publication

• London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Donald, Stephanie, 1961-
• Lindner, Christoph, 1971-

Description

xv, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Annotation

Series Statement

International library of visual culture ; 17

Uniform Title

International library of visual culture ; 17.

Subject

• Cities and towns > Philosophy
• Society
• Urbanität
• Entschleunigung
• Langsamkeit
• Visuelle Medien

Note

• "ILVC 17"--Spine.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-235) and index.

Contents

Inertia, suspension and mobility in the global city / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Christoph Lindner -- On hold : urban photography as interruption / Shirley Johnson -- At the still point of the turning world : the power of the urban portrait / Hugh Campbell -- Parkour and the still image / Bill Marshall -- Commuting and the multiple capacities of stillness / David Bissell -- Decelerating Amsterdam : visual culture, globalization and creative urbanism / Christoph Lindner and Miriam Meissner -- Viennese inertia : cultural and political deceleration and local identity construction / Heide Kunzelmann and Elisabeth Mayerhofer -- Inertia and ethical urban relations : the living, the dying and the dead / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald -- Urban inertia and dealing with the disappeared in postwar Beirut : A perfect day (2004) and Here comes the rain (2010) / Claire Launchbury -- Reflexive stasis, scale reversal and the myth of modern cinema / Lúcia Nagib -- Slow motion pictures : casting inertia in contemporary Berlin film / Andrew J. Webber.

ISBN

• 9781780769721
• 1780769725
• 1780769733
• 9781780769738
• 9780857736123 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

99961043060

OCLC

• ocn887939695
• 887939695
• SCSB-14496328

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library