Atmosphere, architecture, cinema : thematic reflections on ambiance and place / Michael Tawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tawa, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Motion pictures--Art direction.

Motion pictures.

Cinematography.

Physical Description:

xv, 267 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave MacMillan, [2022]

Summary:

"Atmosphere, Cinema, Architecture: Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place explores cinema and architecture as ambient and affective settings or circumstances that can enable the emergence of atmosphere. This book is an interdisciplinary reading of cinematographic practice which develops useful implications for spatial composition in art and architectural design. The way a film is set up, directed, composed, framed, and technically constructed can provide parallels, analogies and metaphors for the spatial organisation of cities, landscapes and buildings. Likewise, the way a built setting is conceived and devised can inform approaches to framing and spatial organisation in cinematography. The book begins on a personal note with a series of recollected atmospheric experiences, leading to an investigation of ambiguity and consilient discrepancy as circumstantial conditions necessary for the production of atmosphere. The mood of melancholia is explored to show the pivotal role that ambiguity, discrepancy and irresolution play in its distinctive ambiance. Atmosphere is then defined as an emergent condition arising between an ambient, affective circumstance and a mooded human being. The book then moves to analyse the inherent conditions in the setup of filmic and architectural settings that render them atmospheric. Reference is made to the cinema of Bresson, Resnais, Lynch, Tarr, Malik and Campion, and to Romanesque tympanae, the architectonic scenography of Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle and the work of Spanish architects Flores Prats. The concluding section, Anatomy of Atmosphere, is a lexicon of concepts, themes and tactics around atmosphere that might usefully inform creative practice."--Cover page 4.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Rehearsing Atmospheres

Alexandria, Egypt

Karnataka

Gamaka

Gerald Manley Hopkins, 1844-1899

Coogee Beach, January 1995

Dhurabbin Country

Adele: ANZ Stadium, Friday, 10 March 2017

A Million Windows

Das Fastenschleiertuch

Shadow

Sumvitg

Ambiance

Ambiguity

Types of Ambiguity

Instress

Circumstance and Consequence

Circumspection

Tracking

On the Lookout

Mood

Mood and Stimmung

Attunement

Dasein: Being-the-There

Melancholia

Music and Melancholia

Atmosphere

Flaky, Fluffy Wadding

Meteorology

Halo

Haze

Scenography

Tectonics of Cinematic Atmosphere

Atmosphere and Cinema

Immanence: Robert Bresson

Reverie: Alain Resnais

Terror: David Lynch

Aporia: Bela Tarr

Grace: Terrence Malik

Suspense: Jane Campion

Tectonics of Architectural Atmosphere

Architecture and Atmosphere

Suspense: Tympanae

Anomie: Kafka's Castle

Consilient Discrepancy: Flores Prats

Anatomy of Atmosphere

Advent

Agency

Allegory

Anticipation

Aporia

Apprehension

Assemblage

Character

Circumambiance

Circumstance

Climate

Coalesce

Colour

Complexion

Conjugation

Consequence

Consilience

Countenance

Crisis

Defer

Density

Discrepancy

Ekstasis

Emergence

Fold

Fragment

Garden

Gesture

Gleam

Gloaming

Gloom

Immanent

Indeterminate

Interstice

Margin

Matrix

Metaphor

Milieu

Pertubation

Porosity

Potentiality

Remembrance

Reverie

Rhythm

Shimmer

Space

Sublime

Suspend

Tectonics

Temper

Time

Undecidable

Waver.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

3031139631

9783031139635

OCLC:

1334720697

Publisher Number:

99993393858