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 106-022 City Cultures: New York/L.A. Stories

Note

Formerly available as 106-221/321. Students who have completed 106-221/321 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Chris Healy

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

Subject Description

This subject provides an introduction to a variety of ways in which city cultures have defined and articulated 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 totalling 4000 words.

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, Bladerunner, Earthquake.
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