The City in American Cinema: How Movies Reprice Urban Life
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores The City in American Cinema, edited by Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb, as a systems-level analysis of film, urban space, and postindustrial development.
The discussion examines how cities become cinematic products through municipal branding, tax incentives, location shooting, real estate speculation, gentrification, and cultural nostalgia. The deeper issue is not whether films represent cities accurately. It is how the image of a city can become part of the machinery that restructures the…
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