Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781138588615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str.

Renee Tobe

Opis

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. German Expressionist Film and Heidegger’s fourfold, 2. French Moderne, Modernist Noir, and Moderns as Masters of Reinvention, 3. The Domestic Front; Hollywood and Postwar Cinema, 4. Swinging Time in London, 5. Positioning Women in Time and Space, 6. Modernist Utopia; The Spirit of the Future, 7. Not Thinking but Questioning; Terence Malick’s Expressions of World and Ground, 8. Speeding into the Unfixed Future in Tokyo, 9. Fear and Trembling; a Study of Why Movies Make us Afraid

O autorze

Renée Tobe, University of East London, United Kingdom