The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space.
Barbara Mennel is the Rothman Chair and Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida. She is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and German Studies in the Departments of English and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Her recent books include Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema (2019) and Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys (2012).
