James A Clapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 3989054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Clapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Clapp |
| SIGNATURE | CLAPP J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cosmetics Europe |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Romantic Travel Movie, Italian-Style
Movies and travel often evoke similar emotions: each can transport us to times past and faraway places. Nowhere in the film genre is this more evident than in the “romantic travel movie” (RTM), where the exotic setting can play a fickle cupid to those who cross cultures and times zones in quest of true and lasting love. Romantic travel movies can be set in a variety of locales, but perhaps no place seems to have advanced the style of conjoining f…
Streets of Gold
Immigration and immigrants play unique and significant roles in both the development of the American city and the American cinema. The city, the cinema, and immigrants came together at the turn of the last century in an unprecedented and economically creative way. Immigrants were involved in the creation of the American cinema as audience, often as subject matter, and most significantly in motion picture production and distribution. Immigrants an…
The City and the Machine
Most of the creative forces of our time have been canalized into the Machine, a systematic organization of scientific discovery and technical invention that, under the pressure of excessive pecunia
Growing Up Urban
"Are You Talking toMe?"-New York and the Cinema of Urban Alienation
New York is a city in which a substantial number of films depicting urban alienation have been set and filmed, although New York films are neither exclusively nor exhaustive of such films. The conditions for alienation derive from several aspects of urbanism also addressed in this essay. This subject deals with the social and psychological estrangement that is often reflected in antisocial behavior in the City, but may also be an expression of id…
It was the city killed the beast
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It was the city killed the beast
"Are You Talking toMe?"-New York and the Cinema of Urban Alienation
New York is a city in which a substantial number of films depicting urban alienation have been set and filmed, although New York films are neither exclusively nor exhaustive of such films. The conditions for alienation derive from several aspects of urbanism also addressed in this essay. This subject deals with the social and psychological estrangement that is often reflected in antisocial behavior in the City, but may also be an expression of id…
The City and the Machine
Most of the creative forces of our time have been canalized into the Machine, a systematic organization of scientific discovery and technical invention that, under the pressure of excessive pecunia
Growing Up Urban
The Romantic Travel Movie, Italian-Style
Movies and travel often evoke similar emotions: each can transport us to times past and faraway places. Nowhere in the film genre is this more evident than in the “romantic travel movie” (RTM), where the exotic setting can play a fickle cupid to those who cross cultures and times zones in quest of true and lasting love. Romantic travel movies can be set in a variety of locales, but perhaps no place seems to have advanced the style of conjoining f…
Streets of Gold
Immigration and immigrants play unique and significant roles in both the development of the American city and the American cinema. The city, the cinema, and immigrants came together at the turn of the last century in an unprecedented and economically creative way. Immigrants were involved in the creation of the American cinema as audience, often as subject matter, and most significantly in motion picture production and distribution. Immigrants an…
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Movie theater (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works)