Filming the City
Urban Documents, Design Practices and Social Criticism through the Lens
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
196 pages
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75 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2016
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Table of Contents

Contents
Forward
Graham Cairns
Introduction
Edward M. Clift
Section One: Film as Spatial Theory
Various
Chapter One: Unlawful entry: The imbrication of suburban space and police repression in Jonathan Kaplan's Los Angeles
Ari Mattes
Chapter Two: Blockbuster realism: Mapping Gotham in the Dark Knight films
Jarrad Cogle
Chapter Three: (Re-) Framing urbanity: Contestation, the moving image and the right to the city
Joern W. Langhorst
Chapter Four: Architects of Playtime: Cities as social media in the work of Jaques Tati
Lisa Landrum
Chapter Five: Film and the urban nightmare: Pier Vittorio Aureli's cityarchipelagos as urbanities woven from media images in Pete Travis's Dredd and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises
Maciej Stasiowski
Section Two: Film as Spatial Research and Experiment
Various
Chapter Six: Hollywood menace: Los Angeles and mid-century modern dens of vice
Gabriel Solomons
Chapter Seven: A second life for a second city: Tradition and modernity in Guadalajara in the Summer
Carmen Elisa Gómez-Gomez
Chapter Eight: The cinematic image as an architectural conductor: A mediated hint from future architecture
Aysegül Akçay Kavakoglu
Chapter Nine: Berlin on film: A mediated and reconstructed city
Graham Cairns
Section Three: Film as Spatial Practice
Various
Chapter Ten: The grey area between reality and representation: The practices of architects and film-makers
Gemma Barton
Chapter Eleven: Electric Signs revisited
Alice Arnold
Chapter Twelve: Public and urban humanities: Beyond the ideal city
Luisa Bravo
Chapter Thirteen: The mediating city: Towards a mise-en-scéne for interaction online
Benjamin Koslowski
Epilogue
Ari Mattes and Mirko Guaralda
Graham Cairns
Introduction
Edward M. Clift
Section One: Film as Spatial Theory
Various
Chapter One: Unlawful entry: The imbrication of suburban space and police repression in Jonathan Kaplan's Los Angeles
Ari Mattes
Chapter Two: Blockbuster realism: Mapping Gotham in the Dark Knight films
Jarrad Cogle
Chapter Three: (Re-) Framing urbanity: Contestation, the moving image and the right to the city
Joern W. Langhorst
Chapter Four: Architects of Playtime: Cities as social media in the work of Jaques Tati
Lisa Landrum
Chapter Five: Film and the urban nightmare: Pier Vittorio Aureli's cityarchipelagos as urbanities woven from media images in Pete Travis's Dredd and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises
Maciej Stasiowski
Section Two: Film as Spatial Research and Experiment
Various
Chapter Six: Hollywood menace: Los Angeles and mid-century modern dens of vice
Gabriel Solomons
Chapter Seven: A second life for a second city: Tradition and modernity in Guadalajara in the Summer
Carmen Elisa Gómez-Gomez
Chapter Eight: The cinematic image as an architectural conductor: A mediated hint from future architecture
Aysegül Akçay Kavakoglu
Chapter Nine: Berlin on film: A mediated and reconstructed city
Graham Cairns
Section Three: Film as Spatial Practice
Various
Chapter Ten: The grey area between reality and representation: The practices of architects and film-makers
Gemma Barton
Chapter Eleven: Electric Signs revisited
Alice Arnold
Chapter Twelve: Public and urban humanities: Beyond the ideal city
Luisa Bravo
Chapter Thirteen: The mediating city: Towards a mise-en-scéne for interaction online
Benjamin Koslowski
Epilogue
Ari Mattes and Mirko Guaralda
Review Quotes
Choice
“This collection examines the relationship between these [architecture and film] in truly 21st-century terms…The editors make readers familiar with international trends that illustrate the growing nexus between film and architecture and the rich body of new creative work being produced as a result of this intersection.”
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