Cinematic Urban Geographies

ISBN-13: 9781137468307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 350 str.

F. Penz; R. Koeck

Opis

Cinema and the moving image contribute to viewers' understanding of cities and their topographies in a variety of ways. The contributors chart the many trajectories and points of contact between cinema and its topographical context and show that filmic studies are rooted in the sites of production.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part I. Cartographic Cinema: Maps in Films and Maps as Mental Cinema

2. The cinema in the map - the case of Braun and Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum

3. Cinematic cartographies of urban space and the descriptive spectacle of aerial views (1898-1948).

4. Charting the Criminal:  Maps as devices for orientation and control in Fritz Lang´s “M” (1931) and Francesco Rosi´s “Hands Over the City” (1963)

Part II. ‘Movie Centric’ Map of Cities – Map-Reading and Ciné-Tourism

5. ‘Merely local’: film and the depiction of place, especially in local documentary

6. The Cine-Tourist’s Map of New Wave Paris

7. Set-jetting, Film Pilgrimage and The Third Man.

Part III. Films as Sites of Memories – Lieux De Mémoires

8. The Cinematic Shtetl as a Site of Postmemory

9. “Where Is The Dust That Has Not Been Alive?”: Screening The Vanished Polis In Stirbitch: An Imaginary

10. Melancholy Urbanism: Distant Horizons and the Presentation of Place

Part IV. Cinematic Topographies within Their Social & Cultural Practices

11. Cinematic urban archaeology – the Battersea case

12. The cinematic and the televisual city: south London revisited

13. Los Angeles and Hollywood in Film and French Theory: Agnès Varda’s Lions Love (1969) and Edgar Morin’s California Journal (1970)

Part V. Database Cinema: Visualising the Cinematic Urban Archaeology and Geo-Locating Movies in the City

14. Urban Cinematic Palimpsests: Moving Image Databases for the City

15. Geographies of the Moving Image: Translating cinematic representation into geographic information

16. Ghost Cinema App: Temporal Ubiquity and the Condition of Being in Everytime

O autorze

François Penz is Director of The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, UK. He is an architect by training and Professor of Architecture and the Moving Image where he directs the Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualization and Communication. He has written widely on issues of cinema, architecture and the city and is the author of Cinematic Aided Design: The Architecture of Everydayness.

Richard Koeck is Professor and Chair in Architecture and the Visual Arts in the Liverpool School of Architecture, UK and is Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA). With a professional background in architectural design and filmmaking, his work is often methodologically underpinned by techniques that bridge analogue and digital culture, such as digital film, GIS mapping and locative media. He published widely on the theoretical and practical intersections of architecture, cities and visual culture, including CineScapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities.

Blurb

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to the literature in the growing field of cartographic cinema and urban cinematics, by charting the many trajectories and points of contact between film and its topographical context. Under the influence of new technologies, the opening and the availability of previously unexplored archives but also the contribution of new scholars with novel approaches in addition to new work by experienced academics, Cinematic Urban Geographies demonstrates how we can reread the cinematic past with a view to construct the urban present and anticipate its future.