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The Media City Media, Architecture and Urban Space [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • Author:  McQuire, Scott
  • Author:  McQuire, Scott
  • ISBN-10:  0857025376
  • ISBN-10:  0857025376
  • ISBN-13:  9780857025371
  • ISBN-13:  9780857025371
  • Publisher:  SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Publisher:  SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Pages:  240
  • Pages:  240
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2010
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2010
  • SKU:  0857025376-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0857025376-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100913242
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Offering social commentary at the deepest levels of historical and critical reference, The Media City links Myspace to Howard Hughes; trams to cinema; security cameras to exploding buildings; reality TV to Marx; and Lenin on privacy to Kracauer on the mass ornament. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated, it intersects disciplines and connects phenomena which are too often left isolated from each other to propose a new way of understanding public and private space and social life in contemporary cities.

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Offering social commentary at the deepest levels of historical and critical reference, The Media City links Myspace to Howard Hughes; trams to cinema; security cameras to exploding buildings; reality TV to Marx; and Lenin on privacy to Kracauer on the mass ornament. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated, it intersects disciplines and connects phenomena which are too often left isolated from each other to propose a new way of understanding public and private space and social life in contemporary cities.

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If only more new media commentators had this level of historical-critical reference, engaging, good stories, and a degree of wonder at what media and windows bring to the city, to life...
John Hutnyk
Academic Director, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London


Just when you thought the last word had been said about cities and media, along comes Scott McQuire to breathe new life into the debate. When revisiting existing pathways, his always ingenious eyes produce startling and original insights. When striking out into new territory, he opens up before us inspiring new vistas. I love this book
James Donald
Professor of Film Studies, Univerl�