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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue3,P.367-387

语言

英文

关键字

Gentrification; film geography; urban change; Woody Allen; New York; London; global city; LOWER EAST-SIDE; NEW-YORK; CITY; LONDON; POLICY; RENAISSANCE; ECONOMICS; POLITICS; CINEMA; 1990S

作者单位

[Lawton, Philip] Maynooth Univ, Dept Geog, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland. Lawton, P (reprint author), Maynooth Univ, Dept Geog, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland. E-Mail: philip.lawton@nuim.ie

摘要

This paper undertakes an analysis of the shifting dynamics of gentrification through the lens of the films of Woody Allen. With his focus upon the spaces of residence and high-end consumption for the upper and middle classes, the paper argues that Allen's films can be used as a lens to examine the changing dynamics of gentrification in contemporary (Western) cities from something deemed almost novel in the 1970s, to a dominant approach to urban transformation in the early twenty-first century. In so doing, the paper demonstrates the constant tension between the desire to carve out a particular urban idyll and that of a sense of loss perceived by gentrifiers themselves of the rate of change taking place in the contemporary city.