Main entry:

Clutter, McLain.

Title & Author:

Imaginary apparatus : New York City and its mediated representation / McLain Clutter.

Publication:

Zürich : Park Books, ©2015.

Description:

200 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm + 1 videodisc ((51 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Notes:
Included with this book is a DVD featuring the movie What Is the City but the People?, the film version of the 1969 "Plan for New York City" and a unique document that has never before been publicly available.
DVD. Copyright date on film: ©MCMLXIX.
Film's play displays duration: 51:00.
Accompanying DVD title: What is the City but the people?
Includes bibliographical references.
DVD-Video What is the City but the people? / a production of John Peer Nugent Enterprises. Ltd. ; producer and writer, John Peer Nugent ; directors, John Peer Nugent, Gordon Hyatt.
DVD. Cinematographers, Henry Javorsky, Arthur J. Ornitz, Jr. ; original music composer and conductor, Bernard Green ; editor, Lee Reichenthal.
DVD. The narrators, Willam H. Whyte and the people of New York.

Summary:

During John V. Lindsay's Mayoral tenure in New York 1966-73, the city created innovative policy intended to draw on-location media production to New York's streets. Simultaneously, the New York City Planning Commission and associated offices produced a wealth of documents that reflect conceptual and aesthetic influences of various visual media. American architect McLain Clutter undertook to analyse to what remarkable extent the effects of these two areas of political ambition were interrelated. In his new book Imaginary Apparatus, Clutter describes the relationship between New York City and its mediated representation at the conjuncture of these circumstances, tracing the interrelation of their attendant cultural, economic and aesthetic valences. The second part of the book explores the legacy of Lindsay's policies by analysing their effects on New York City's built environment. Clutter illustrates his argument with a large selection of photographs and film-stills, many of them previously unpublished, and with original documents from various archives. This ground-breaking new book is rounded out with a DVD featuring 'What is the City but the People?', the film version of the study 'Plan for New York City 'of 1969, a unique document that has never before been publicly available.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9783906027852
3906027856

Subject:

City planning New York (State) New York.
City planning.
Motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) In motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) In popular culture.
New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Optical disks.
DVDs.

Added entries:

Nugent, John Peer.
Hyatt, Gordon.
What is the City but the people?

Subtitle on title page reads: New York City and and its mediated representation

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290680
Call No.: BIB 233810
Status: Available