Cinematic Urban Geographies (Screening Spaces)

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Cinematic Urban Geographies (Screening Spaces)

Cinematic Urban Geographies (Screening Spaces)

2018-02-20 Cinematic Urban Geographies (Screening Spaces)

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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. 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. 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. 

He published widely on the theoretical and practical intersections of architecture, cities and visual culture, including CineScapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities.. He has written widely on issues of cinema, architecture and the city and is the author of Cinematic Aided Design: The A

From the Back CoverThis 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. 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. . In doing so it makes a signif