Metropolis

reflected specific concerns dominating public life in Germany. This paper discusses the qualities that define three classical German Expressionist films, including Friedrich Wilhem Murnau’s film Nosferatu- A Symphony of Terror, Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis, and Robert Wiene’s film The Cabinet of Dr. Cligari, as “Expressionist films”, how director Tim Burton’s films compare and contrast from the classical German Expressionist films, and, finally, how Tim Burton’s films are a new form of…

In 1854 London was a city of scavengers, along with a Bohemian crowd of poets, writers and musicians, the home of the River Thames. The city’s growth was spectacular. A census in 1851 registered 2-1/2 million people in a total of ninety square miles of space, “…up from around a million at the turn of the century.” (Johnson, S. p.12) London was economically diverse with its opulent townhouses of Mayfair and Kensington surrounded by streets of poverty and foul smelling industry. .…

Kenneth Jackson contends in Crabgrass Frontier, that the development of the skyscraper with the telephone and elevator emphasized the vigor of the American city in the 19th century, “but the extraordinary prosperity and vitality of most urban cores between 1890 and 1950 cannot be understood without reference to the streetcar systems.” Unlike cable cars or the railroad, streetcars highlighted the business district and connected the people to the heart of the city. The streetcar enabled…

Location and Description Bronzeville is community area 38, one of Chicago’s designated neighborhoods. It is one of the well-defined Chicago Community Areas. Located on the South Side of Chicago, with Cermak Road, 22nd Street, on the north, Washington Park on the South, Federal Street to its west and Lake Michigan as its eastern border this area is rich in culture and history. Bronzeville also includes the Washington Park Court district that was declared a landmark on October 2, 1991. The…

More often than not this concrete jungle of twists and turns often lead the upstarting individual with his or her head in hands. In its crazed prime for some it was heaven others it was the start to a life of party and some even find themselves stuck, a good reference would be the film, “Great Gatsby”-F. Scott Fitzgerald. Throughout this time period countless men were trying their hand at business, but this was just the beginning and peak of Ponzi schemes and all white collar crimes alike.…

road infrastructure with more journey options. In addition, Mumford warns that “one cannot bring about the renewal of the city by replacing old structures with new buildings that only confirm the obsolete pattern of city growth. (Mumford, 1961)“one metropolis will merge physically with its neighbor” (Mumford, 1961). A merge will usually eliminate the local characteristics in culture, landscape, and so forth. This is true in…

good? Conformation in society isn’t something that’s really beneficial towards the future of us. In Ishmael by Daniel Quinn it’s talked about how the “story” that the Takers are following is leading us towards a path of destruction, in the movie Metropolis the main character tried to revolt against the norm and tried…

My hometown in the Sao Paulo, a metropolis that is located in the southeast region of Brazil. The municipality is a leading global city, being listed by the Globalization and World Cities, and furthermore is the most crowded city in Brazil, the Americas, and probably even the Southern Hemisphere. In its early years, the city gained a global status as a fashion center, for its culture and arts, and its thriving and never ending nightlife and dining scene. Growing up in Sao Paulo was packaged…

“the incubator for Manhattan’s incipient themes and infant mythology” and “a fetal Manhattan” (30,31). Coney Island enticed commuters from the city “to live inside a fantasy” with its untouched, natural beaches, providing an escape from the growing metropolis. Its an artificial world built for those who can’t go out and experience it firsthand, he notes:…

including those of the areas of politics, economics and culture. In the area of culture the population of Mozambique was viewed as a people without culture, a people without history, and all of its cultural displays were considered to be folklore by his metropolis - Portugal. During the exploitation of Republic of South Africa by NL, although there was a little difference in terms of local cultural consideration, the general scope was the same, that is, under appreciating the native culture.…