The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections

By Les Roberts

Book Overview

List of Illustrations Note on the Contributors Preface; J.Hallam & R.Kronenburg Introduction: Projecting the Urban; R.Koeck & L.Roberts PART I: PROJECTING THE CITY: PLACE, SAPCE AND IDENTITY 'Old World Traditions...and Modernity' in Cunard's Transatlantic Films, c.1920-35: Making Connections between Early Promotional Films and Urban Change; H.Norris Nicholson Nice: Virtual City; I.McNeill Visions of Community: The Post War Housing Problem in Sponsored and Amateur Films; R.Shand 'City of Change and Challenge': The Cine-societies' Response to Liverpool's Redevelopment in the 1960s; J.Hallam PART II: OF TIME AND THE CITY: LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY AND ABSENCE Towards a History of Empty Spaces; C.Brunsdon Tacita Dean's Optics of RefusaL; T.McDowell Critique of the Disappearing City in the Films of Keiller, Cohen, and Steinmetz and Chanan; I.Robinson A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau Observed; A.Marcus PART III: CINEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY: FILM, MAPPING AND THE URBAN TOPOGRAPHY Mapping the City through Film: From 'Topophilia' to Urban Mapscapes; T.Castro Towards (East) London 2012: Emily Richardson's Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009), and the Work of Iain Sinclair; P.Newland The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895-1914); M.Cinquegrani Projection Place: Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism; L.Roberts PART IV: CINE-TECTURE: FILM, ARCHITECTURE AND NARRATIVITY Cine-Montage: The Spatial Editing of Cities; R.Koeck Informing Contemporary Architectural Urban Design with Historic Filmic Evidence; R.Kronenburg The Real City in the Reel City: Towards a Methodology through the Case of Am?lie; F.Penz Let Architecture 'Play' Itself: A Case Study; H.Weihsmann Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349318310
• ISBN13: 9781349318315
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"