The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections

by R. Koeck (Editor), L. Roberts (Editor)

Overview

This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores the recent developments in research on film and urban landscapes, pointing towards new theoretical and methodological frameworks for discussion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349318315
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Edition description:	1st ed. 2010
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CHARLOTTE BRUNSDON Professor of Film and Television Studies at Warwick University, UK TERESA CASTRO MAURIZIO CINQUEGRANI PhD Candidate at King's College London, UK JULIA HALLAM Reader in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK ROBERT KRONENBURG Chair of Architecture in the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, UK ALAN MARCUS Reader in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen, UK TARA MCDOWELL ISABELLE MCNEILL College Lecturer in the Department of French, University of Cambridge, UK PAUL NEWLAND Lecturer in Film at the University of Aberystwyth, UK HEATHER NORRIS NICHOLSON Research Fellow, Department of History and Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK FRANCOIS PENZ Reader in Architecture and the Moving Image, University of Cambridge, UK IAN ROBINSON RYAN SHAND Research Associate at the University of Liverpool, UK HELMUT WEIHSMANN Director of the Urbanity and Aesthetics series in Vienna, Austria

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Note on the Contributors Preface; J.Hallam & R.Kronenburg Introduction: Projecting the Urban; R.Koeck & L.Roberts PART I: PROJECTING THE CITY: PLACE, SAPCE AND IDENTITY 'Old World Traditions…and Modernity' in Cunard's Transatlantic Films, c.1920-35: Making Connections between Early Promotional Films and Urban Change; H.Norris Nicholson Nice: Virtual City; I.McNeill Visions of Community: The Post War Housing Problem in Sponsored and Amateur Films; R.Shand 'City of Change and Challenge': The Cine-societies' Response to Liverpool's Redevelopment in the 1960s; J.Hallam PART II: OF TIME AND THE CITY: LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY AND ABSENCE Towards a History of Empty Spaces; C.Brunsdon Tacita Dean's Optics of RefusaL; T.McDowell Critique of the Disappearing City in the Films of Keiller,Cohen, and Steinmetz and Chanan; I.Robinson A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau Observed; A.Marcus PART III: CINEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY: FILM, MAPPING AND THE URBAN TOPOGRAPHY Mapping the City through Film: From 'Topophilia' to Urban Mapscapes; T.Castro Towards (East) London 2012: Emily Richardson's Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009),and the Work of Iain Sinclair; P.Newland The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895-1914); M.Cinquegrani Projection Place: Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism; L.Roberts PART IV: CINE-TECTURE: FILM, ARCHITECTURE AND NARRATIVITY Cine-Montage: The Spatial Editing of Cities; R.Koeck Informing Contemporary Architectural Urban Design with Historic Filmic Evidence; R.Kronenburg The Real City in the Reel City: Towards a Methodology through the Case of Amélie ; F.Penz Let Architecture 'Play' Itself: A Case Study; H.Weihsmann Index