Film And Urban Space

Author : Geraldine Pratt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074867814X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film and Urban Space written by Geraldine Pratt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and analyses the major debates about the crucial historical relationship between film and the city to consider existing and future possibilities.

Author : Les Roberts
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781386552
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film, Mobility and Urban Space written by Les Roberts and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on multi-disciplinary debates surrounding the cultural production of place, space and memory in the post-industrial city, this study explores the role of moving images in representations and perceptions of everyday urban landscapes. It uses a unique spatial database of over 1700 archive films of Liverpool from 1897 to the present day.

Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 186189581X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Projected Cities written by Stephen Barber and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. Projected Cities looks with particular focus at the cinema of Europe and Japan, two closely linked cinematic cultures which have been foremost in the use of urban imagery, to reveal elements of culture, architecture and history. By examining this imagery, especially at moments of turmoil and experimentation, the author reveals how cinema has used images of cities to influence our perception of everything from history to the human body, and how cinematic images of cities have been fundamental to the ways in which the city has been imagined, formulated and remembered. The book goes on to assess the impact of media culture on the status of film and cinema spaces, and concludes by considering digital renderings of the modern city. Projected Cities will appeal to all readers engaged with the city, film and contemporary culture.

Author : Mark Shiel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144439973X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema and the City written by Mark Shiel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.

Author : Geraldine Pratt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748630201
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film and Urban Space written by Geraldine Pratt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities traces recurring debates about what constitutes film's political potential and argues that the relation between film and urban space has been crucial to these debates and their historical transformations. The book demonstrates that in the attempt to follow certain prescriptions shooting on location, disrupting normalizing time, experimenting with memory, interlinking the spaces of screen and cinema films invariably use the relation between film and urban space as a kind of laboratory, testing anew received prescriptions but invariably encountering new opportunities and new limits. A wide range of key films, from Dziga Vertov's 1928 Man with a Movie Camera to Jia Zhangke's 2008 24 City, are discussed in depth, each offering an argument for how the encounter between specific manifestations of modern urban space and politically engaged film strategies has served to challenge the status quo and stimulate critical thinking.

Author : William Hollingsworth Whyte
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9780970632418
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces written by William Hollingsworth Whyte and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2001 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces.

Author : Edward Dimendberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674261577
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity written by Edward Dimendberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and ’50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how film noir is preoccupied with modernity—particularly the urban landscape. The originality of Dimendberg’s approach lies in his examining these films in tandem with historical developments in architecture, city planning, and modern communications systems. He confirms that noir is not simply a reflection of modernity but a virtual continuation of the spaces of the metropolis. He convincingly shows that Hollywood’s dark thrillers of the postwar decades were determined by the same forces that shaped the city itself. Exploring classic examples of film noir such as The Asphalt Jungle, Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Naked City alongside many lesser-known works, Dimendberg masterfully interweaves film history and urban history while perceptively analyzing works by Raymond Chandler, Edward Hopper, Siegfried Kracauer, and Henri Lefebvre. A bold intervention in cultural studies and a major contribution to film history, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity will provoke debate by cinema scholars, urban historians, and students of modern culture—and will captivate admirers of a vital period in American cinema.

Author : Zhen Zhang
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340744
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Generation written by Zhen Zhang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous./div

Author : Maria Balshaw
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Space And Representation written by Maria Balshaw and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and interdisciplinary collection of new work on the forms and meanings of the modern city in literary, film and cultural studies.

Author : Johan Andersson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850999
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Cinematic Cities written by Johan Andersson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema and audiovisual media are integral to the culture, economy and social experience of the contemporary global city. But how has the relationship between cinema and the urban environment evolved in the era of digital technology, new media and globalization? And what are the critical tools and concepts with which we can grasp this vital interconnection between space and screen, viewer and built environment? Engaging with a rapidly transforming urban world, the contributions to this collection rethink the 'cinematic city' at a global scale. By presenting a global constellation of screen cities within one volume, the book encourages juxtapositions and comparisons across the North and South to capture the global city and its dynamics of exchange, hybridity, and circulation. The contributions examine film and screen cultures in a range of locations spanning five continents: Antibes, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cairo, Caracas, Copenhagen, Jakarta, Kolkata, Lagos, Los Angeles, Malmö, Manila, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Seoul, Sète, and Shanghai. The chapters address topics that range across the contemporary film and media landscape, from popular cinema, art cinema, and film festivals to serial television, public screens, multimedia installations, and video art. Contributors: Chris Berry, Yomi Braester, Jinhee Choi, Pei-Sze Chow, Thomas Elsaesser, Malini Guha, Jonathan Haynes, Will Higbee, Igor Krstic, Christian B. Long, Joanna Page, Lawrence Webb.