Global Cinematic Cities : New Landscapes of Film and Media / Lawrence Webb, Johan Andersson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andersson, Johan, editor.

Webb, Lawrence, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in motion pictures.

Cities and towns in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Cinema and audiovisual media are integral to the culture, economy and social experience of the contemporary global city. But how has the relationship between cinema and the urban environment evolved in the era of digital technology, new media and globalization? And what are the critical tools and concepts with which we can grasp this vital interconnection between space and screen, viewer and built environment? Engaging with a rapidly transforming urban world, the contributions to this collection rethink the 'cinematic city' at a global scale. By presenting a global constellation of screen cities within one volume, the book encourages juxtapositions and comparisons across the North and South to capture the global city and its dynamics of exchange, hybridity, and circulation. The contributions examine film and screen cultures in a range of locations spanning five continents: Antibes, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cairo, Caracas, Copenhagen, Jakarta, Kolkata, Lagos, Los Angeles, Malmö, Manila, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Seoul, Sète, and Shanghai. The chapters address topics that range across the contemporary film and media landscape, from popular cinema, art cinema, and film festivals to serial television, public screens, multimedia installations, and video art. Contributors: Chris Berry, Yomi Braester, Jinhee Choi, Pei-Sze Chow, Thomas Elsaesser, Malini Guha, Jonathan Haynes, Will Higbee, Igor Krstic, Christian B. Long, Joanna Page, Lawrence Webb.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Decentring the Cinematic City - Film and Media in the Digital Age / Andersson, Johan / Webb, Lawrence

Transnational Screen Cities

In the City but Not Bounded by It: Cinema in the Global, the Generic and the Cluster City / Elsaesser, Thomas

Traversing the Øresund: the Transnational Urban Region in Bron/Broen / Chow, Pei-Sze

Neoliberalism, Nollywood and Lagos / Haynes, Jonathan

Global City Imaginaries

New Urban and Media Ecologies in Contemporary Buenos Aires / Page, Joanna

When Harry Met Siri: Digital Romcom and the Global City in Spike Jonze's Her / Webb, Lawrence

Cinephilia and the City: the Politics of Place in Contemporary Bengali Cinema / Guha, Malini

Public Screens and New Media Landscapes

Screen Cultures and the 'Generic City': Public Screens in Cairo and Shanghai / Berry, Chris

The City as Found Footage: The Reassemblage of Chinese Urban Space / Braester, Yomi

Remediating the 'Other Half': Planet Slum as Transmedia Project / Krstić, Igor

New Narrative Topographies

Interstitial Cityspace and the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary French Cinema / Higbee, Will

Seoul, Busan and Somewhere Near: Korean Gangster Noir and Social Immobility / Choi, Jinhee

Chase Sequences and Transport Infrastructure in Global Hollywood Spy Films / Long, Christian B.

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780231850995

0231850999

OCLC:

979832438