Screen LibraryCinematic urban geographies /
This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies. In doing so it makes a significant contr...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Screening spaces
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| Summary: |
This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to the literature in the growing field of cartographic cinema and urban cinematics, by charting the many trajectories and points of contact between film and its topographical context. Under the influence of new technologies, the opening and the availability of previously unexplored archive |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137468307 1137468300 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J905 |
| Call Number: | J905/C574-1 |
| Contents: |
Cinematic Urban Geographies; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Part I Cartographic Cinema: Maps in Films and Maps as Mental Cinema; Part II 'Movie Centric' Map of Cities -- Map-Reading and Ciné-Tourism; Part III Films as Sites of Memories -- Lieux De Mémoires; Part IV Cinematic Topographies Within Their Social and Cultural Practices; Part V Database Cinema: Visualising the Cinematic Urban Archaeology and Geo-Locating Movies in the City; References; Part I Cartographic Cinema: Maps in Films and Maps as Mental Cinema 2 The Cinema in the Map -- The Case of Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis TerrarumIntroduction; Maps and Atlas as Pre-Cinematic Devices; A Case Study of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum Map of Cambridge; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Cinematic Cartographies of Urban Space and the Descriptive Spectacle of Aerial Views (1898-1948); Describing the New Cityscape: Cinema, Aerial Views and the Origins of the Modern Metropolis; Early Filmic Portrayals of the Modern Metropolis and the Physiognomy of the City; 'Cine-Sensations' of the City; The Anxious Spectacle or the City as Aerial Target; Notes Vienna and The Third Man: A City and the Business of CinephiliaReferences; Part III Films as Sites of Memories -- Lieux de Mémoires; 8 The Cinematic Shtetl as a Site of Postmemory; The Cinematic Shtetl and the Recovery of Lost Memories; Postmemory and the Journey to the Shtetl; Notes; References; Filmography; 9 'Where Is the Dust That Has Not Been Alive?': Screening the Vanished Polis in Stirbitch: An Imaginary; Notes; Works Cited; 10 Melancholy Urbanism: Distant Horizons and the Presentation of Place; Melancholy and Romanticism; Horizontality; Melancholy and the Body; Melancholy and Loss Horizons of UnderstandingRooftopping the Sublime; Melancholy and Reflexivity; Conclusion; References; Part IV Cinematic Topographies Within Their Social and Cultural Practices; 11 Cinematic Urban Archaeology: The Battersea Case; Introduction; Hard City: The Survey of London and Cinematic Urban Archaeology; Cinematic Urban Archaeology -- Changes in the Fabric of the City; Cinematic Urban Archaeology -- Stories of Urban Life (Social and Cultural Trends); Cinematic Urban Archaeology -- A Cross Sectional Analysis of Poor Cow (1967); The 'Hard City' -- The Point of View of the Urban Historian |