New York şehir senfonileri: İki savaş arası modernitesinin eleştirisi ve propagandası

This thesis aims to write an architectural history of interwar years New York analyzing eleven existing city symphonies. City symphonies are avant-garde documentaries which provide valuable information to understand life in modern urban cities. With its skyscrapers, bustling harbor activities, multilayered transportation network and immense immigration wave, New York bore many problems of urbanization and tried to solve them with innovations. This thesis explores receptions and representations of modernity through city symphonies focusing the specificities of films they reveal. It addresses mechanization of everyday life, American urban economy and its diversity, gender of time and space, privacy and publicity, similarity and diversity.