The Divided City and Its New Cinemas, 1920-1980

Name: The Divided City and Its New Cinemas, 1920-1980
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ISBN: 9780252049712

Amy Murphy

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University of Illinois Press
31 March 2026

Film theory & criticism; Communication studies

Series: The History of Media and Communication

Film offers a powerful witness to the historical effects of segregation. Twentieth-century American urban policy favored ""white flight"" to the suburbs while confining other racial and ethnic groups in urban cores. Mainstream cinema, in turn, perpetuated racial stereotypes that justified this confinement. Amy Murphy revisits this history via six independent films, each mapping a distinct urban geography at a particular moment in the century.

Murphy's analysis reveals that certain veins of postwar independent filmmaking grew out of specific policy failures of the American city. With increased access to media production, such filmmakers created new cinemas from within the segregated city that expanded avenues for self-representation.

Informed and insightful, The Divided City and Its New Cinemas, 1920–1980 examines how often-raw independent films pioneered cinematic exploration of identities impacted by space and time, and by geography and history.

By: Amy Murphy
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780252049712
ISBN 10: 0252049713
Series: The History of Media and Communication
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 31 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amy Murphy is a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California.