Visualizing the City

ISBN-13: 9780415419710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 252 str.

Marcus/Neumann

Opis

This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies.

Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the City s diverse essays explore visual representations of urbanism and modernity reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.

Recenzje

"Astonishing in its quality." -- Focus on German Studies

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Reflecting on the City  1. Haptic Space: Film and the Geography of Modernity Giuliana Bruno  2. Early Film and the Reproduction of Rio Maite Conde  3. Visualizing the Urban Masses: Modern Architecture and Architectural Photography in Weimar Berlin Sabine Hake  Part 2: Remembering and Reinventing the City  4. Beautiful Dachau’s Contested Urban Identity Alan Marcus  5. The Contested City: Beirut in Lebanese War Cinema Lina Khatib  6. Tribute in Light: Iconography of a Memorial Dietrich Neumann  Part 3: Reframing and Reshaping the City  7. Out on a Limb? Urban Traumas on the West Pacific Rim Stephanie Hemelryk Donald  8. The City Being Itself: the Case of Paris in La Haine François Penz  9. Composing London Visually Robert Tavernor  Part 4: Revisualizing the City  10. The VJ of the Everyday: Remixing the Urban Visual Scott Burnham  11. Employee Entrances and Emergency Exits: Exposing the Invisible Imagery of Consumption David Michalski  12. Rain in the City Jill Stoner