Title & Author:

Cities in transition : the moving image and the modern metropolis / edited by Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson.

Publication:

London : Wallflower Press, 2008.

Description:

ix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Moving images of cities / Andrew Webber -- Motion and emotion: film and the urban fabric / Guiliana Bruno -- Urban space and early film / Patrick Keiller -- The space beside: lateral exposition, gender and urban narrative space in D.W. Griffith's biograph films / David Trotter -- Symphony of a city: motion pictures and still lives in Weimar Berlin / Andrew Webber -- Modern life in High treason: visual and narrative analysis of a near-future cinematic city / Richard Koeck -- City of light, gardens of delight / Thomas Elsaesser -- Imag(in)ing the city: Simonides to the Sims / William Uricchio -- Time and the city: Chris Marker / Sarah Cooper -- From topographical coherence to creative geography: Rohmer's The aviator's wife and Rivette's Pont du Nord / François Penz -- Controlled space: the build environment of Margarethe von Trotta's The German sisters / Charity Scribner -- Temporal geographies: comic strip and cinema in 1980s Madrid / Paul Julian Smith -- Lola/Lolo: filming gender and violence in the Mexican city / Geoffrey Kantaris -- Looking at the city in The matrix franchise / Henry Jenkins -- The sound of the city: Chinese films of the 1990s and urban noise / Elena Pollacchi -- Transitional spaces: media, memory and the city in contemporary French film / Isabelle McNeill -- Tolstoy in Los Angeles: ivans xtc. / Edward Dimendberg -- The tattered labyrinth: a selective A-Z of London cinema / Chris Petit.

Summary:

The city is one of the great protagonists in cinema - a modernist inspiration for silent classics such as Metropolis (1926) and a dense urban jungle in The Matrix (1999) - yet there have been few attempts to grasp the cultural and aesthetic nature of its role in media of the moving image. This volume offers an ambitious collection of essays discussing this complex and enduring relationship, and showing how early cinema, digital technology and changing urban geographies have all impacted upon ideas and representations of the modern city. Amongst the films discussed are Metropolis, The Matris, Peeping Tom (1960), Performance (1970), Sans Soleil (1983) and Amores perros (2000). Contributions come from the fields of film studies, cultural theory, architecture and design, as well as filmmakers Patrick Keiller and Chris Petit. -- from back cover.

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ISBN:

9781905674329 (hbk.)
1905674325 (hbk.)
1905674317 (pbk.)
9781905674312 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns in motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Villes au cinéma.
Vie urbaine au cinéma.
Film
Stadt
Stadtleben

Form/genre:

Kongress Cambridge 2004.

Added entries:

Webber, Andrew.
Wilson, Emma.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258088
Call No.: BIB 188684
Status: Available