The city and the moving image
Subtitle: urban projections
By: edited by Richard Koeck, Les Roberts
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780230243385
Subjects: Motion pictures; Architecture in motion pictures; Actualities (Motion pictures); Motion pictures and architecture; Documentary films; History and criticism; Cities and towns in motion pictures; History
Description: The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book brings together contributions from scholars and practitioners working in film and cultural studies, architecture and cultural geography. The collection is organised around four main thematic sections, each of which explores the spatial and temporal underpinnings to debates on film and urban landscapes. The trope of 'projection', while playing on its more immediate cinematic connotations, is also intended to convey a wider set of meanings, addressing issues and debates relating to space, place and identity; landscape, memory and absence; cartography and mapping; and architecture and urban narrativity. The contributions address a range of moving image genres, from features and documentaries, to amateur film, actualities and promotional films. Mapping the relationship between material, visual and embodied spaces of urban representation, the book explores new and critical perspectives on film and urban landscapes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Projecting the Urban / Richard Koeck and Les Roberts; title: Projecting the City : Place, Space and Identity. '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; title: Nice : Virtual City / Isabelle McNeill; title: Visions of Community : The Post War Housing Problem in Sponsored and Amateur Films / Ryan Shand; title: 'City of Change and Challenge' : The Cine-societies' Response to Liverpool's Redevelopment in the 1960s / Julia Hallam; title: Of Time and the City : Landscapes of Memory and Absence. Towards a History of Empty Spaces / Charlotte Brunsdon; title: Tacit Dean's Optics of Refusal / Tara McDowell; title: Critique of the Disappearing City in the Films of Keiller, Cohen, and Steinmetz and Chanan / Ian Robinson; title: A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau and KZ Munich / Alan Marcus; title: Cinematic Cartography : Film, Mapping and Urban Topography. Mapping the City through Film: From 'Topophilia' to Urban Mapscapes / Teresa Castro; title: Towards (East) London 2012 : Emily Richardson's Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009), and the Work of Iain Sinclair / Paul Newland; title: The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895-1914) / Maurizio Cinquegrani; title: Projecting Place : Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism / Les Roberts; title: Cine-Texture  Film, Architecture and Narrativity. Cine-Montage : The Spatial Editing of Cities / Richard Koeck; title: Informing Contemporary Architectural Urban Design with Historic Filmic Evidence / Robert Kronenburg; title: The Real City in the Reel City : Towards a Methodology through the Case of Amélie / Francois Penz; title: Let Architecture 'Play' Itself : A Case Study / Helmut Weihsmann.