Title & Author:

Filming the city : urban documents, design practices and social criticism through the lens / edited by Edward M. Clift, Mirko Guaralda, and Ari Mattes ; series editor Graham Cairns.

Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd, 2016.
©2016

Description:

xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Mediated cities series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Graham Cairns -- Introduction / Edward M. Clift -- Section 1: Film as spatial theory. Unlawful entry : the imbrication of suburban space and police repression in Jonathan Kaplan's Los Angeles / Ari Mattes ; Blockbuster realism : mapping Gotham in the Dark Knight films / Jarrad Cogle ; (Re-)framing urbanity : contestation, the moving image and the right to the city / Joern W. Langhorst ; Architects of Playtime : cities as social media in the work of Jacques Tati / Lisa Landrum ; Film and the urban nightmare : Pier Vittorio Aureli's city-archipelagos as urbanities woven from media images in Pete Travis's Dredd and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight rises / Maciej Stasiowski -- Section 2: Film as spatial research and experiment. Hollywood menace : Los Angeles and mid-century modern dens of vice / Gabriel Solomons ; A second life for a second city : tradition and modernity in Guadalajara in the summer / Carmen Elisa Gómez-Gomez ; The cinematic image as an architectural conductor : a mediated hint from future architecture / Aysegül Akçay Kavakoglu ; Berlin on film : a mediated and reconstructed city / Graham Cairns -- Section 3: Film as spatial practice. The grey area between reality and representation : the practices of architects and film-makers / Gemma Barton ; Electric signs revisited / Alice Arnold ; Public life and urban humanities : beyond the ideal city / Luisa Bravo ; The mediating city : towards a mise-en-scéne for interaction online / Benjamin Koslowski -- Epilogue / Ari Mattes and Mirko Guaralda.

Summary:

"Filming the city" brings together the work of film-makers, architects, designers, video artists, and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urban relevance, offering contemporary criticisms of both film and urbanism from conflicting perspectives, and documenting examples of how to actively use the medium of film in the design of our cities, spaces and buildings. Bringing a diverse set of contributors to the collection, editors Edward M. Clift, Mirko Guaralda and Ari Mattes offer readers a new approach to understanding the complex, multi-layered interaction of urban design and film."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781783205547 (paperback)
1783205547 (paperback)
(ePDF)
9781783205554
(ePub)
9781783205561

Subject:

Cities and towns in motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Motion pictures Social aspects.
Villes au cinéma.
Vie urbaine au cinéma.
Cinéma Aspect social.
Performing Arts.
Film
Gesellschaftskritik
Stadt

Added entries:

Clift, Edward Montgomery, editor.
Guaralda, Mirko, editor.
Mattes, Ari, editor.
Cairns, Graham, series editor.
Mediated cities series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293361
Call No.: BIB 238205
Status: Available