The city and the moving image : urban projections / edited by Richard Koeck and Les Roberts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koeck, Richard, 1969-

Roberts, Les, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in motion pictures.

Architecture in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and architecture.

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

History.

Documentary films--History--20th century.

Documentary films.

Actualities (Motion pictures)--History and criticism.

Actualities (Motion pictures).

Physical Description:

xv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction : Projecting the Urban / Richard Koeck and Les Roberts

Projecting the City : Place, Space and Identity. 'Old World Traditions and Modernity' in Cunard's Transatlantic Films, c. 1920-35 : Making Connections between Early Promotional Films and Urban Change / Heather Norris Nicholson

Nice : Virtual City / Isabelle McNeill

Visions of Community : The Post War Housing Problem in Sponsored and Amateur Films / Ryan Shand

'City of Change and Challenge' : The Cine-societies' Response to Liverpool's Redevelopment in the 1960s / Julia Hallam

Of Time and the City : Landscapes of Memory and Absence. Towards a History of Empty Spaces / Charlotte Brunsdon

Tacit Dean's Optics of Refusal / Tara McDowell

Critique of the Disappearing City in the Films of Keiller, Cohen, and Steinmetz and Chanan / Ian Robinson

A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau and KZ Munich / Alan Marcus

Cinematic Cartography : Film, Mapping and Urban Topography. Mapping the City through Film: From 'Topophilia' to Urban Mapscapes / Teresa Castro

Towards (East) London 2012 : Emily Richardson's Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009), and the Work of Iain Sinclair / Paul Newland

The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895-1914) / Maurizio Cinquegrani

Projecting Place : Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism / Les Roberts

Cine-Texture Film, Architecture and Narrativity. Cine-Montage : The Spatial Editing of Cities / Richard Koeck

Informing Contemporary Architectural Urban Design with Historic Filmic Evidence / Robert Kronenburg

The Real City in the Reel City : Towards a Methodology through the Case of Amélie / Francois Penz

Let Architecture 'Play' Itself : A Case Study / Helmut Weihsmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230243385

023024338X

OCLC:

635463613

Publisher Number:

99940614332