In its free mixing of images, graphics, field notes, information and commentary, the book, quite like the parent project, maintains a work-in-progress status. The book is divided into three sections.

This collection argues that cinema and cities have become increasingly intertwined in the era of neoliberalism, urban branding, and accelerated gentrification.

In this volume, urbanist James A. Clapp explores the reciprocal relationship between the city and the cinema within the dimensions of time and space.A variety of themes and actualizations have been repeated throughout the history of the ...

This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in ...

Engaging with current theoretical debates, this is a book that is set to change the way in which we think about both the nature of the city and film.

... Cinema City recruited rising stars like Tsui Hark and John Woo (Wu Yusen) and pursued high-budget action comedies. With an astonishing investment of HK$8 million, Cinema City hired an American cinematographer and several stunt experts ...

Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated Hong Kong's race for economic growth, and found expression in cinema's depictions of a 'city on fire.

... cinema in the city of Bombay/Mumbai, leading to the hugely ambitious, intermedial, intertextual, witty, grainy arts project, Cinema City, which has taken multiple metropolises in India and the rest of the world by storm since it began ...

... Cinema City & Films, established in 1980, was the new trendsetter. Cinema City knew very well what a new company had to do when entering the market. In response to George Lam's success in the movie All the Wrong Clues for the Right ...