Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Imaging the Modern City, Darkly 1
4. Modernism and Urban Dystopia
5. Chapter 1. The Phantasm of the Apocalypse 17
6. Chapter 2. Sounds Like Hell 31
7. Chapter 3. Tlatelolco 53
8. The Aesthetics of the Dark City
9. Chapter 4. A Regional Geography of Film Noir 75
10. Chapter 5. Oh No, There Goes Tokyo 104
11. Chapter 6. Postsocialist Urban Dystopia? 127
12. Chapter 7. Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque 150
13. Imaging Urban Crisis
14. Chapter 8. Topographies of Distress 187
15. Chapter 9. Living in Dystopia 218
16. Chapter 10. Imaging Urban Breakdown 241
17. Contributors 261
18. Index 265