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Urban Cinematics
Understanding Urban Phenomena through the Moving Image
Urban Cinematics surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urban planning with film studies, this book explores the potential of cinema as a tool to investigate the communal narratives of cities. A series of dialogues with filmmakers rounds out this insightful and methodologically innovative volume.
Table of Contents
Introduction: What is Urban Cinematics?
François Peng and Andong Lu
Part I: City Symphonies: Montaged Urban Cinematic Landscapes
1. Ciné-City Strolls: Imagery, Form, Language and Meaning of the City Film
Helmut Weihsmann
2. I Am Here, or, The Art of Getting Lost: Patrick Keiller and the New City Symphony
Patrik Sjöberg
3. Get Out of the Car: A Commentary
Thom Andersen
Part II: Cinematic Urban Archaeology
4. Aids to Objectivity? Photography, Film and the New ‘Science’ of Urbanism
Nicholas Bullock
5. Which Role for the Cinema in a Working-class City: The Case of Saint-Etienne
Roger Odin
6. A Film of Two Cities: Sean Connery’s Edinburgh
Murray Grigor
7. Film as Re-imaging the Modern Space
Mark Lewis
Part III: Geographies of the Urban Cinematic Landscape
8. Mobility and Global Complexity in the Work of Van der Keuken
Hing Tsang
9. From Maps of ‘Progress’ to Crime Maps (and back again?): The Plasticity of the Aerial Shot in Mexican Urban Film
Celia Dunne
10. Night on Earth, Urban Wayfinding and Everyday Life
Andrew Otway
Part IV: The Cinematic in the Urban
11. Sleepwalking from New York to Miami
Alison Butler
12. Film in our Midst: City as Cinematic Archive
Janet Harbord and Rachel Moore
13. Parkour Vision
Layla Curtis
Part V: Cinematic Urban Design Pratice
14. Urban Anagram: A Bio-political Reflection on Cinema and City Life
Maria Hellström Reimer
15. Reconsidering Cinematic Mapping: Halfway Between Collected Subjectivity and Projective Mapping
Marc Boumeester
16. Mapping Urban Space: Moving Image as a Research Tool
Wowo Ding
17. The Moving Image of the City: Expressive Space/Inhabitation/Narrativity: Intensive studio workshop on ‘Continuity of Action in space’
Maureen Thomas
Contributors
Index
François Peng and Andong Lu
Part I: City Symphonies: Montaged Urban Cinematic Landscapes
1. Ciné-City Strolls: Imagery, Form, Language and Meaning of the City Film
Helmut Weihsmann
2. I Am Here, or, The Art of Getting Lost: Patrick Keiller and the New City Symphony
Patrik Sjöberg
3. Get Out of the Car: A Commentary
Thom Andersen
Part II: Cinematic Urban Archaeology
4. Aids to Objectivity? Photography, Film and the New ‘Science’ of Urbanism
Nicholas Bullock
5. Which Role for the Cinema in a Working-class City: The Case of Saint-Etienne
Roger Odin
6. A Film of Two Cities: Sean Connery’s Edinburgh
Murray Grigor
7. Film as Re-imaging the Modern Space
Mark Lewis
Part III: Geographies of the Urban Cinematic Landscape
8. Mobility and Global Complexity in the Work of Van der Keuken
Hing Tsang
9. From Maps of ‘Progress’ to Crime Maps (and back again?): The Plasticity of the Aerial Shot in Mexican Urban Film
Celia Dunne
10. Night on Earth, Urban Wayfinding and Everyday Life
Andrew Otway
Part IV: The Cinematic in the Urban
11. Sleepwalking from New York to Miami
Alison Butler
12. Film in our Midst: City as Cinematic Archive
Janet Harbord and Rachel Moore
13. Parkour Vision
Layla Curtis
Part V: Cinematic Urban Design Pratice
14. Urban Anagram: A Bio-political Reflection on Cinema and City Life
Maria Hellström Reimer
15. Reconsidering Cinematic Mapping: Halfway Between Collected Subjectivity and Projective Mapping
Marc Boumeester
16. Mapping Urban Space: Moving Image as a Research Tool
Wowo Ding
17. The Moving Image of the City: Expressive Space/Inhabitation/Narrativity: Intensive studio workshop on ‘Continuity of Action in space’
Maureen Thomas
Contributors
Index