Title:
Filming the city : urban documents, design practices and social criticism through the lens / edited by Edward M. Clift, Mirko Guaralda, and Ari Mattes ; series editor Graham Cairns.
Author:
Clift, Edward Montgomery, editor.
Guaralda, Mirko, editor.
Mattes, Ari, editor.
Cairns, Graham, series editor.
Publication Information:
Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd, 2016.
©2016
Call Number:
PN1995.9.C513 F55 2016
Abstract:
"Filming the city" brings together the work of film-makers, architects, designers, video artists, and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urban relevance, offering contemporary criticisms of both film and urbanism from conflicting perspectives, and documenting examples of how to actively use the medium of film in the design of our cities, spaces and buildings. Bringing a diverse set of contributors to the collection, editors Edward M. Clift, Mirko Guaralda and Ari Mattes offer readers a new approach to understanding the complex, multi-layered interaction of urban design and film."--Page 4 of cover.
ISBN:
9781783205547
Series:
Mediated cities series
Mediated cities series.
Physical Description:
xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Film as spatial theory. Unlawful entry: the imbrication of suburban space and police repression in Jonathan Kaplan's Los Angeles / Blockbuster realism: mapping Gotham in the Dark Knight films / (Re-)framing urbanity: contestation, the moving image and the right to the city / Architects of Playtime: cities as social media in the work of Jacques Tati / Film and the urban nightmare: Pier Vittorio Aureli's city-archipelagos as urbanities woven from media images in Pete Travis's Dredd and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight rises / Film as spatial research and experiment. Hollywood menace: Los Angeles and mid-century modern dens of vice / A second life for a second city: tradition and modernity in Guadalajara in the summer / The cinematic image as an architectural conductor: a mediated hint from future architecture / Berlin on film: a mediated and reconstructed city / Film as spatial practice. The grey area between reality and representation: the practices of architects and film-makers / Electric signs revisited / Public life and urban humanities: beyond the ideal city / The mediating city: towards a mise-en-scéne for interaction online
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