David Clarke (ed.)

The Cinematic City

Herausgeber: Clarke, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text offers an insight into cityscape and screenscape and their interconnection. Film genres, cities and historical periods are examined. The key dimensions of film and urban theory are introduced followed by an analysis of the various cinematic forms which relate to the city.

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3llustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of films, genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field to offer an innovative insight into the interconnection of city and screenscapes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 197mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780415127455
• ISBN-10: 0415127459
• Artikelnr.: 21579826

Autorenporträt

David Clarke is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
List of Contributors
Introduction: Previewing the Cinematic City
1. Chinese Boxes and Russian Dolls: Tracking the Elusive Cinematic City
2. City Views: The Voyage of Film Images
3. Of Plans and Planners: Documentary Film and the Challenge of the Urban Future
1935-52
4. Something More than Night: Tales of the Noir City
5. Urban Confidential: The Lurid City of the 1950s
6. Cinécities in the Sixties
7. From Ramble City to the Screening of the Eye: Blade Runner
Death and Symbolic Exchange
8. 'The People in Parentheses': Space Under Pressure in the Postmodern City
9. Mainly in Cities and at Night: Some Notes on Cities and Film
10. Piecing Together What Remains of the Cinematic City
11. Maps
Movies
Musics and Memory
Index