Week Two (June 2) - Urban Anxieties

Readings for today: 

• Steve Macek, “The Cinema of Suburban Paranoia,” in Urban Nightmares (University of Minnesota Press: 2006), pp. 199-255.

In-class:

• FILM: Warriors (excerpts)
• FILM: Boyz n the Hood (excerpts)
• TV: The Wire (excerpts)

For further reading and research:

• Katherine Simpson, "Media Images of the Urban Landscape: the South Bronx in Film," Centro Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2002): 99-113.
• Douglas Muzzio, "'Decent People Shouldn't Live Here': The American City in Cinema," Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 18, No 2 (1996): 189-215. 
• James A. Clapp, "'Are You Talking to Me?': New York and the Cinema of Urban Alienation," Visual Anthropology, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2005): 1-18.