Film, mobility and urban space : a cinematic geography of Liverpool / Les Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Les, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liverpool (England)--In motion pictures.

Liverpool (England).

Physical Description:

xvi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Drawing on multi disciplinary debates surrounding-the cultural production of place, space, and memory-in the post-industrial city, Film, Mobility and Urban, "Space explores the role of moving images in representations arid perceptions' of 'everyday-Urban landscapes.' The arguments put forward in the book are based on a case study of Liverpool in' the north west-of England and draw on a unique "spatial database of over 1700 archive films of the city from--1897 to the present day Theoretically wide-ranging in scope, Les Roberts's study combines critical spatial analysis, archival-research and qualitative, methods to navigate a city's cinematic geographies as mapped across, a broad spectrum of film genres, including amateur film, travelogues newsreels, promotional films, documentaries and features.

As the second most filmed' city in the UK,- and formerly second city of Empire - Liverpool boasts a rich industrial, architectural and maritime heritage that has, positioned the city which was European Capital of Culture in 2008) at the forefront of current debates on regeneration visuality and cultural memory. The tension " between the city as spectacle and the city as archive, and the contradiction's that underpin the growing cinematization of postmodern urban space, are at that of the arguments developed through out the book. Examining the contention that, as spatial practices, the production and consumption of urban cinematic geographies are, in their different ways tied to shifting cultures and geographies of mobility, Film, Mobility and Urban Space maps the critical interplay between material and immaterial space's of the city and re-evaluates the significance and 'place' - of location in contemporary film practice and urban cultural theory.

Les Roberts is a research associate in the School of Arts at the University of Liverpool. He is editor of Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance (Palgrave, 2012), and co-editor of Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between (Routledge, 2012) and the City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections (Palgrave, 2010). Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Cinematic Geography: Mobilizing the Archive City 1

2 An Incriminated Medium? The City as Urban Spectacle 32

3 Cityscapes: Panoramas and the Mobile Gaze 64

4 City Limits: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity 97

5 Movie-mapping: Cinematographic Tourism and Place-marketing 128

6 World in One City: Travel, Globalization and Placeless Space 162

7 Cinematic Cartography: Mapping the Archive City 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-239) and index.

ISBN:

9781846317576

1846317576

OCLC:

760973350