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Tag Archives: Walter Benjamin
From Streetwalker to Street Walker: The Rise of the Flâneuse
In fact and in fantasy, London had become a contested terrain: new commercial spaces and journalist practices, expanding networks of female philanthropy, and a range of public spectacles . . . enabled workingmen and women of many classes to challenge … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Jenks, department stores, flanerie, Flaneur, flaneuse, Judith R Walkowitz, Mrs Dalloway, prostitution, sexuality, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin
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Woolf at the Door 1: The City and Modernism
(Cities were) more than accidental meeting places and crossing points. They were generative environments of the new arts, focal points of intellectual community, indeed of intellectual conflict and tension. (Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane (ed), Modernism: A Guide to European … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Veronica, Baudelaire, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Charles Dickens, cities, Deborah Parsons, Doblin, Dorothy Richardson, George Gissing, HG Wells, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, London, Malcolm Bradbury, modernism, Mrs Dalloway, New Woman, The Mall, TS Eliot, Ulysses, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin
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Website of the Month – July 2012 – London Fictions
London Fictions is a website curated by BBC journalist, Andrew Whitehead. Andrew is an adopted Londoner and is passionate about London fiction. He aims, with this site, to share his excitement about his subject with others. London Fictions features many … Continue reading
Film of the Month – May 2012 – Flânerie Seen Through a Lens: Light, Movement and Film
Something different this month; rather than reviewing a specific film we are looking at how the creative process of film-making links with the practice of the flâneur, feminism and early modernist fiction. The modern(ist) metropolis and the institution of cinema … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinema, Close Up, Dorothy Richardson, Flaneur, Photography, Pilgrimage, Salome, Virginia Woolf. Agnes Varda, Walter Benjamin
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