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Mythologizing the post-industrial city

Mythologizing the post-industrial city. Leonard Nevarez Intro to Urban Studies March 7, 2017. Joy Division “ She ’ s Lost Control ” Filmed originally for the BBC TV program “ Something New ” September 15, 1979. The Smiths. Madchester. Acid house. Acid house. Oasis.

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Mythologizing the post-industrial city

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  1. Mythologizing the post-industrial city Leonard Nevarez Intro to Urban Studies March 7, 2017

  2. Joy Division “She’s Lost Control” Filmed originally for the BBC TV program “Something New” September 15, 1979

  3. The Smiths

  4. Madchester

  5. Acid house

  6. Acid house

  7. Oasis

  8. From rock to rubble: How Manchester lost its music The Guardian March 30, 2010 Narrated by Owen Hatherley

  9. The Manchester myth of Joy Division

  10. The Manchester myth of Joy Division

  11. The Manchester myth of Joy Division

  12. The Manchester myth of Joy Division

  13. With this tone poem of a movie, [Corbijn] continues what he started in those photographs: the creation of a visual language that uncannily paralleled what Joy Division did with sound, which was to assimilate the desolation of their surroundings and dislocation of their era while simultaneously aestheticizing it, transfiguring it into sombre glamour. The barren beauty of that landscape of sound was an exteriorization of how lots of people felt inside at that late-seventies moment—the dawn of the Thatcher-Reagan era, a freshly frigid Cold War with renewed anxiety about Armageddon. - Simon Reynolds, 2010

  14. When I was approached by executive producers Tom Atencio and Tom Astor to get involved with a documentary on the group, it seemed natural to hark back to what Manchester was like in 1979 and 1980—a world away from at least twenty years of regeneration and city sponsored pop culture advertising. - Jon Savage, circa 2010 The film is also about myth-making and Manchester. I imagine that you will have things to say about this yourself. - email inviting Paul Morley to chair Joy Division masterclass in conjunction with documentary’s

  15. When I was approached by executive producers Tom Atencio and Tom Astor to get involved with a documentary on the group, it seemed natural to hark back to what Manchester was like in 1979 and 1980—a world away from at least twenty years of regeneration and city sponsored pop culture advertising. - Jon Savage, circa 2010 The film is also about myth-making and Manchester. I imagine that you will have things to say about this yourself. - email inviting Paul Morley to chair Joy Division masterclass in conjunction with documentary’s

  16. Still from Joy Division (2007 documentary, dir. Grant Gee) We went on many night drives around Manchester, as we did back in the day, which occasioned some happy accidents—like when we found an aircraft fuselage in a warehouse car park. Grant also projected the Super 8s onto buildings from the car and re-filmed the moving image. So Malcolm Whitehead's "Joy Division" and Charles Salem's "No City Fun" really helped us in the style of the documentary. - Jon Savage, 2008

  17. Still from Joy Division (2007 documentary, dir. Grant Gee) We went on many night drives around Manchester, as we did back in the day, which occasioned some happy accidents—like when we found an aircraft fuselage in a warehouse car park. Grant also projected the Super 8s onto buildings from the car and re-filmed the moving image. So Malcolm Whitehead's "Joy Division" and Charles Salem's "No City Fun" really helped us in the style of the documentary. - Jon Savage, 2008

  18. Still from Joy Division (2007 documentary, dir. Grant Gee) We went on many night drives around Manchester, as we did back in the day, which occasioned some happy accidents—like when we found an aircraft fuselage in a warehouse car park. Grant also projected the Super 8s onto buildings from the car and re-filmed the moving image. So Malcolm Whitehead's "Joy Division" and Charles Salem's "No City Fun" really helped us in the style of the documentary. - Jon Savage, 2008

  19. Unknown Pleasures is also a very iPodded kind of world. It's urban, but it's not. It's about a landscape, but that landscape is primarily an interior landscape. And so, what is very, very important about it now is to see where we've travelled from since then and exactly why it still sounds so bloody contemporary. - Jon Wozencroft, 2007

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