Visualising the City: Introduction

The city beckons us, employs us, thrills us and alarms us. Whether contextualised within a film narrative or engaged with in everyday life, for many of us the urban environment is a defining feature of living in the twenty-first century. A few years ago, a student informed me that he wished to write on an aspect of ‘the city in film’, and asked which books he should consult. We explored what turned out to be a rich seam of recent publications on film and the urban experience.