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 106-221 City Cultures: New York/L.A. Stories

Note

Available as 106-321 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Chris Healy

Semester

2

Contact

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject provides an introduction to a variety of ways in which city cultures have defined and articulated modern and postmodern culture. Students will be introduced to contemporary urban narratives of places and spaces through a focus on the city cultures of New York and LA. These two cities will be analysed through the ways in which they have been represented in architecture, fiction and film, in order to consider how these cities have become central to our theoretical understanding of contemporary city cultures.

Assessment

Written work of not more that 5000 words consisting of one 1500 paper based on a class presentation and one 3500 word essay.

Prescribed Texts
  • M Davis, City of Quartz. Verso.
  • P Auster, The New York Trilogy. Faber and Faber.
  • M Rosler, If You Lived Here. Bay Books.
  • Films:, China Town, Taxi Driver, Gold Diggers of 1935, King Kong, Bladerunner, Earthquake.
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