Cityscaping
Subtitle: constructing and modelling images of the city
By: edited by Therese Fuhrer, Felix Mundt, Jan Stenger
Series: Philologus. Supplemente/Supplementary volumes -- volume 3
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9783110376821; 9783110400960; 9783110401141
Subjects: Sources; Cities and towns; Imagery (Psychology); Cities and towns in literature; Imagination; Cities and towns in motion pictures; Cities and towns in art; Semantics; History
Description: "The term 'cityscaping' is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media--text, film and artefacts. It thus turns attention away from built urban spaces and onto mental images of cities. One focus is on the question of which literary, visual and acoustic means prompt their recipients' spatial imagination; another is to inquire into the semantics and functions that are ascribed to the image of a city as constructed in various media. The examples of ancient texts and works of art, and modern literature and films, are used to elucidate the artistic potential of images of the city and the techniques by which they are semanticised. With its interdisciplinary approach, the volume for the first time makes clear how strongly mental images of urban space, both ancient and modern, have been shaped by the techniques of their representation in media"--From publisher's website.
Notes: "The papers collected in this volume are based on oral versions delivered at the conference "Cityscaping -- Constructing and Modelling Images of the City in Literature, Film, and Art", held at Dahlem, Berlin, on 4-6 October 2012"-- Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.