Overview
- Explores critical perspectives on and changes that have occurred in the study of film in the context of urban geographies
- Introduces novel approaches and various perspectives to understand the portrayal of urban geographies within films
- Analyzes how the cinema's depiction of cities influences our perception of urban geographies
Part of the book series: Screening Spaces (SCSP)
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This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to the literature in the growing field of cartographic cinema and urban cinematics, by charting the many trajectories and points of contact between film and its topographical context. Under the influence of new technologies, the opening and the availability of previously unexplored archives but also the contribution of new scholars with novel approaches in addition to new work by experienced academics, Cinematic Urban Geographies demonstrates how we can reread the cinematic past with a view to construct the urban present and anticipate its future.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Cartographic Cinema: Maps in Films and Maps as Mental Cinema
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‘Movie Centric’ Map of Cities – Map-Reading and Ciné-Tourism
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Films as Sites of Memories – Lieux de Mémoires
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Cinematic Topographies Within Their Social and Cultural Practices
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Database Cinema: Visualising the Cinematic Urban Archaeology and Geo-Locating Movies in the City
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
François Penz is Director of The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, UK. He is an architect by training and Professor of Architecture and the Moving Image where he directs the Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualization and Communication. He has written widely on issues of cinema, architecture and the city and is the author of Cinematic Aided Design: The Architecture of Everydayness.
Richard Koeck is Professor and Chair in Architecture and the Visual Arts in the Liverpool School of Architecture, UK and is Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA). With a professional background in architectural design and filmmaking, his work is often methodologically underpinned by techniques that bridge analogue and digital culture, such as digital film, GIS mapping and locative media. He published widely on the theoretical and practical intersections of architecture, cities and visual culture, including CineScapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cinematic Urban Geographies
Editors: François Penz, Richard Koeck
Series Title: Screening Spaces
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46084-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46830-7Published: 13 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46084-4Published: 12 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 350
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations
Topics: Film Theory, Film History, Urban Studies/Sociology, Close Reading, Global Cinema and TV