The architecture of the screen : essays in cinematographic space / Graham Cairns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cairns, Graham, author.

Contributor:

Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Space (Architecture)--In motion pictures.

Space (Architecture).

Architectural design--In motion pictures.

Architectural design.

Motion pictures--Influence.

Physical Description:

xi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2013.

Summary:

With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. 'The architecture of the screen' examines the relationship between the visual language of film and the onscreen perception of space and architectural design, revealing how film's visual vocabulary influenced architecture in the twentieth century and continues to influence it today. Graham Cairns draws on film reviews, architectural plans, and theoretical texts to illustrate the unusual and fascinating relationship between the worlds of filmmaking and architecture.

Contents:

Part I. Film reviews : The cinema of the French New Wave and the illusionism of SITE architects: Les carabiniers, 1963

The architecture of Diller and Scofidio: the screen and surveillance: Das experiment, 2001

The "cut" in the architecture of Jean Nouvel and the scenery of Ken Adam: You only live twice, 1967

The visual narratives of Resnais in the architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Hiroshima Mon Amour, 1959

German Baroque architecture and the filming of Resnais: a fusion: Last year in Marienbad, 1961

Sigfreid Giedion, Rem Koolhaas and the fragmentary architecture of the city, Run Lola run: 1998

The aesthetics and formalism of Godfrey Reggio in the projects of Jean Nouvel: Koyaanisqatsi, 1982

Boullée on film: an architectural cinematography: The belly of an architect, 1987

Playtime: a commentary on the art of the Situationists, the philosophy of Henri Lefebvre and the architecture of the modern movement: Playtime, 1967

Venturi and Antonioni: the modern city and the phenomenon of the moving image: Zabriskie Point, 1970

Part II. Applying film to architecture : Video installation: Hybrid artworks

The physical experience of space and the sensorial perception of image : Performance 1. Shadows ; Performance 2. Memories ; Performance 3. Echoes ; Incidental legacy: a technical description

The physical experience of image and the sensorial perception of space : The world imagined by Diller and Scofidio ; Performance: Jet lag ; Installation: Loophole ; Architecture: The slow house

Cinematographic architecture: exercises in theory and practice

Cinematographic space: a study of Citizen Kane : [Scenes 1-4] Citizen Kane

From the contradictions of film to the creativity of architecture: design workshop : Stage 1. Cinematographic analysis of film ; Stage 2. Filming space ; Stage 3. Storyboarding spaces ; Stage 4. Storyboarding architectural events ; Stage 5. Design proposals

Part III Conceptual essays : The hybridisation of sight in the hybrid architecture of sport: the effects of television on stadia and spectatorship

Cinematic movement in the work of Le Corbusier and Sergei Eisenstein

The historical construction of cinematic space: an architectural perspective on the films of Jean Renoir and Yasujiro Ozu

Cinematic phenomenology in architecture: the Cartier Foundation, Paris, Jean Nouvel

Cinematic space and time: the morphing of a theory in film and architecture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-332) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

ISBN:

1841507113

9781841507118

OCLC:

828187424

Publisher Number:

99963790775