Readings for Sept 21

Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong and Gary W. McDonogh, “The Mediated Metropolis:
Anthropological Issues in Cities and Mass Communication,” American Anthropologist,
Vol. 103, No. 1, (March 2001), pp. 96-111.

Nezar AlSayyad, “Preface,” “Introduction: The Cinematic City and the Quest for the
Modern,” and Chapter 3: “Orwellian Modernity: Utopia/Dystopia and the City of the
Future Past,” in AlSayyad, Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to
Real (New York and London: Routledge, 2006), pp. xi - 18, 72-96.

Andreas Huyssen. “The Vamp and the Machine” in M. Minden and H. Bachmann (Eds).
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear. Rochester: Camden,
2000.

Anton Kaes, “The Phantasm and the Apocalypse: Metropolis and Weimar Modernity,” in
Gyan Prakash, ed., Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City (Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010), pp. 17-30.