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:	9780230243385
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/14/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(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 Figures and Table vii

Preface Julia Hallam Robert Kronenburg ix

Acknowledgements xi

Notes on Contributors xii

Introduction: Projecting the Urban Richard Koeck Les Roberts 1

Part I Projecting the City: Place, Space and Identity 19

1 'Old World Traditions ... and Modernity' in Cunard's Transatlantic Films, c. 1920-35: Making Connections between Early Promotional Films and Urban Change Heather Norris Nicholson 21

2 Nice: Virtual City Isabelle McNeill 36

3 Visions of Community: The Postwar Housing Problem in Sponsored and Amateur Films Ryan Shand 50

4 'City of Change and Challenge': The Cine-Societies' Response to the Redevelopment of Liverpool in the 1960s Julia Hallam 69

Part II Of Time and the City: Landscapes of Memory and Absence 89

5 Towards a History of Empty Spaces Charlotte Brunsdon 91

6 Tacita Dean's Optics of Refusal Tara McDowell 104

7 Searching for the City: Cinema and the Critique of Urban Space in the Films of Keiller, Cohen, and Steinmetz and Chanan Ian Robinson 114

8 A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau and KZ Munich Alan Marcus 125

Part III Cinematic Cartography: Film, Mapping and Urban Topography 141

9 Mapping the City through Film: From 'Topophilia' to Urban Mapscapes Teresa Castro 144

10 Towards (East) London 2012: Emily Richardson's Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009), and the Work of Iain Sinclair Paul Newland 156

11 The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895-1914) Maurizio Cinquegrani 169

12 Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism Les Roberts 183

Part IV Cine-Tecture: Film, Architecture and Narrativity 205

13 Cine-Montage: The Spatial Editing of Cities Richard Koeck 208

14 Informing Contemporary Architectural and Urban Design with Historic Filmic Evidence Robert Kronenburg 222

15 The Real City in the Reel City: Towards a Methodology through the Case of Amélie François Penz 233

16 Let Architecture 'Play' Itself: A Case Study Helmut Weihsmann 253

Index 271