Seeing Symphonically

Seeing SymphonicallyLooks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York. Can the cinema imagine a different way of developing, using, and living in the city? Is it possible to do so using images of the extant city? Seeing Symphonically shows how a group of independent experimental, documentary, and feature films made in and about late modern New York City did just this. Between

of Jewish midrash and South Arabian lore

Presented as a series of integrated case studies and interviews

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Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood

and socialist vision for the country

and scientific development by which our contemporary perspective of the Mediterranean emerges

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The author provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in ‘le vieux Paris’

the Goldberg-Schaefer-Becker group

The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the social determinants of health and discusses ways to address health disparities through changes in public policy

Hannah Ginsborg