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Urban Cinematics: Understanding Urban Phenomena through the Moving Image

Author/EditorPenz F & Andong L (Author)
Lu, Andong (Author)
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 9781841504285
Pub Date15/10/2011
BindingPaperback
Pages324
Dimensions (mm)229(h) * 178(w) * 17(d)
Reviews the mechanisms by which cinema and the moving image contribute to our understanding of cities, addressing two key issues: how do film-makers make use of cities and how do cities make use of cinema? This title explores the use of cinema as a tool/approach to investigate the phenomena, experience and narrative of cities.
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The interdisciplinary nature of this book makes it accessible to a wide audience. It includes contributions from leading scholars and academics from over 10 countries. It introduces some highly innovative topics and the methodological approach differs from any previous books on similar topics. "Urban Cinematics" aims to review the mechanisms by which cinema and the moving image contribute to our understanding of cities while at the same time addressing two key issues: how do film-makers make use of cities and how do cities make use of cinema? It explores the use of cinema as a tool/approach to investigate the phenomena, experience and narrative of cities. It brings together the leading scholars in a variety of disciplines including architecture, urbanism and film studies. "The Urban Cinematics" book is organised into five thematic sections, which include fifteen academic papers by scholars from architecture, landscape, urban design and film studies, as well as four dialogues between film-makers and an academic audience.

The interdisciplinary nature of this book makes it accessible to a wide audience. It includes contributions from leading scholars and academics from over 10 countries. It introduces some highly innovative topics and the methodological approach differs from any previous books on similar topics. "Urban Cinematics" aims to review the mechanisms by which cinema and the moving image contribute to our understanding of cities while at the same time addressing two key issues: how do film-makers make use of cities and how do cities make use of cinema? It explores the use of cinema as a tool/approach to investigate the phenomena, experience and narrative of cities. It brings together the leading scholars in a variety of disciplines including architecture, urbanism and film studies. "The Urban Cinematics" book is organised into five thematic sections, which include fifteen academic papers by scholars from architecture, landscape, urban design and film studies, as well as four dialogues between film-makers and an academic audience.

Francois Penz is an architect and a teacher in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge. Andong Lu is a research associate at the University of Cambridge.

Introduction - Francois Penz and Andong Lu Part I: City symphonies: Montaged urban cinematic landscapes Chapter 1: Cine-City strolls: Imagery, form, language and meaning of the city film - Helmut Weihsmann Chapter 2: I am here, or, the art of getting lost: Patrick Keiller and the new city symphony - Patrik Sjoeberg Chapter 3: Get out of the car: A commentary - Thom Andersen Part II: Cinematic urban archaeology Chapter 4: Aids to objectivity? Photography, film and the new 'science' of urbanism - Nicholas Bullock Chapter 5: Which role for the cinema in a working-class city: The case of Saint-Etienne - Roger Odin Chapter 6: A film of two cities: Sean Connery's Edinburgh - Murray Grigor Chapter 7: Film as re-imaging the modern space - Mark Lewis Part III: Geographies of the urban cinematic landscape Chapter 8: Mobility and global complexity in the work of Van der Keuken - Hing Tsang Chapter 9: From maps of 'progress' to crime maps (and back again?): The plasticity of the aerial shot in Mexican urban film - Celia Dunne Chapter 10: Night on Earth, urban wayfinding and everyday life - Andrew Otway Part IV: The cinematic in the urban Chapter 11: Sleepwalking from New York to Miami - Alison Butler Chapter 12: Film in our midst: City as cinematic archive - Rachel Moore Chapter 13: Parkour vision - Layla Curtis Part V: Cinematic urban design practice Chapter 14: Urban anagram: A bio-political reflection on cinema and city life - Maria Hellstroem Reimer Chapter 15: Reconsidering cinematic mapping: Halfway between collected subjectivity and projective mapping - Marc Boumeester Chapter 16: Mapping urban space: Moving image as a research tool - Wowo Ding Chapter 17: The moving image of the city: Expressive space/inhabitation/narrativity: Intensive studio workshop on 'Continuity of Action in Space' - Maureen Thomas

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