Urban Walking -The Flaneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film

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The volume assembles fresh treatments on the flaneur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The range of topics covered demonstrates the ongoing productivity of flanerie as a viable paradigm for the artistic approach to urban culture and the continuing suitability of flanerie as an analytic category for the scholarly examination of urban representation in the arts. This productiveness also extends to the questioning, re-evaluation, and enhancement of flanerie’s theoretical foundations as they were laid down by Walter Benjamin and others. The work will be particularly relevant for students and scholars of literary studies, film studies and gender studies, as well as for theoretical approaches to flanerie as an important aspect of urban culture.