Filming the city : urban documents, design practices and social criticism through the lens / edited by Edward M. Clift, Mirko Guaralda, and Ari Mattes ; series editor Graham Cairns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clift, Edward Montgomery, editor.

Guaralda, Mirko, editor.

Mattes, Ari, editor.

Cairns, Graham, series editor.

Series:

Mediated cities series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in motion pictures.

City and town life in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

"Filming the city" brings together the work of film-makers, architects, designers, video artists, and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urban relevance, offering contemporary criticisms of both film and urbanism from conflicting perspectives, and documenting examples of how to actively use the medium of film in the design of our cities, spaces and buildings. Bringing a diverse set of contributors to the collection, editors Edward M. Clift, Mirko Guaralda and Ari Mattes offer readers a new approach to understanding the complex, multi-layered interaction of urban design and film."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Section 1 Film as Spatial Theory

Chapter 1 Unlawful Entry: The imbrication of suburban space and police repression in Jonathan Kaplan's Los Angeles / Ari Mattes Mattes, Ari 9

Chapter 2 Blockbuster realism: Mapping Gotham in the Dark Knight films / Jarrad Cogle Cogle, Jarrad 27

Chapter 3 (Re-)Framing urbanity: Contestation, the moving image and the right to the city / Joern W. Langhorst Langhorst, Joern W. 45

Chapter 4 Architects of Playtime: Cities as social media in the work of Jacques Tati / Lisa Landrum Landrum, Lisa 61

Chapter 5 Film and the urban nightmare: Pier Vittorio Aureli's city-archipelagos as urbanities woven from media images in Pete Travis's Dredd and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises / Maciej Stasiowski Stasiowski, Maciej 79

Section 2 Film as Spatial Research and Experiment

Chapter 6 Hollywood menace: Los Angeles and mid-century modern dens of vice / Gabriel Solomons Solomons, Gabriel 97

Chapter 7 A second life for a second city: Tradition and modernity in Guadalajara in the Summer / Carmen Elisa Gómez-Gomez Gómez-Gomez, Carmen Elisa 111

Chapter 8 The cinematic image as an architectural conductor: A mediated hint from future architecture / Aysegül Akçay Kavakoglu Kavakoglu, Aysegül Akçay 127

Chapter 9 Berlin on film: A mediated and reconstructed city / Graham Cairns Cairns, Graham 145

Section 3 Film as Spatial Practice

Chapter 10 The grey area between reality and representation: The practices of architects and film-makers / Gemma Barton Barton, Gemma 165

Chapter 11 Electric Signs revisited / Alice Arnold Arnold, Alice 183

Chapter 12 Public life and urban humanities: Beyond the ideal city / Luisa Bravo Bravo, Luisa 205

Chapter 13 The mediating city: Towards a mise-en-scéne for interaction online / Benjamin Koslowski Koslowski, Benjamin 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783205547

1783205547

OCLC:

946010728