Projected Cities

In their depiction of the city, movies carry a multiplicity of means through which to reveal elements of culture, architecture, and history. Projected Cities surveys the connections between cinematic images and cities, with particular focus on the urban cinema cultures of Europe and Japan. It explores urban film imagery at moments of turmoil and experimentation, and assesses the impact of contemporary media culture on the movie. Projected Cities is an illuminating examination of urban and cinema history, and will appeal to all readers engaged with the city, film, and contemporary culture.

The Times (London) has praised Stephen Barber_s work as "brilliant and profound."

Stephen Barber is the author of Fragments of the European City (Reaktion, 1995), Extreme Europe (Reaktion, 2001) and has written biographies of Edmund White and Antonin Artaud. Stephen Barber has been hailed by The Independent on Sunday as _a cultural historian of real distinction_ and The Times has praised his work as _brilliant and profound_.