ABSTRACT City Island (De Felita, 2009) and Shortbus (Mitchell, 2006), independent films produced around the 2008 economic crisis, characterize their titular New York locations as ‘off-the-grid,’ exclusive bastions of authentic individual and communal life exempted from the norms and pressures of neoliberal urban culture. At the same time, however, they extend this status to New York City as a whole by valorizing its rectilinear grid as a monumental structure that allows citizens to master their environment. In doing so, while these films advance provocative visions of counterpublics, they also reinscribe the neoliberal idealization of consumption as freedom, here producing the city itself, both periphery and center, built environment and residents, as an image to be consumed rather than a space to be remade as its residents choose.

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新自由主义制图学：纽约独立电影中的网格

摘要2008年经济危机前后制作的独立电影《城市岛》（德费利塔，2009年）和《短途巴士》（米切尔，2006年）将纽约名义上的电影院定性为“离网”，免除了真实个人和公共生活的专属堡垒来自新自由主义城市文化的规范和压力。但是，与此同时，他们通过将其直线形网格作为纪念性结构而使纽约市成为一个整体，从而使公民能够掌握其环境，从而将这种地位扩展到整个纽约市。在这样做的过程中，尽管这些电影提出了对共和制的挑衅性看法，但它们也将消费的新自由主义理想化重新刻画为自由，在这里将城市本身（包括外围和中心），建筑环境和居民都作为要消费的图像而不是空间根据居民的选择进行翻新。