Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- General Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 From the USA to Europe: Development of a New City -- Part One: Old Europe -- Old Europe's Cities: Between Tradition and Transition -- 2 Stratified Madrid: Layers of Realism and Artifice in Almodóvar's Cinema -- 3 A Present and a True City? Naples in Mario Martone's Cinema -- 4 Marseilles: Intersection, Fragment, Ruin -- Part Two: Postcommunist Europe -- Cities and Cinemas after Socialism -- 5 Any Town? Warsaw in Girl Guide and Kiler by Juliusz Machulski -- 6 Berlin, a Coreless City -- 7 Cleansing the City and the Country: Moscow in the Films of Pavel Lungin -- Part Three: Case Study: Great Britain -- British Cities since the 1980s and Their Cinematic Representation -- 8 London: Fragments of a Metropolis -- 9 Escape from a Celtic City -- 10 The Eternal Postmodernity of Blackpool -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.