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This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores the recent developments in research on film and urban landscapes, pointing towards new theoretical and methodological frameworks for discussion.

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• List of Figures and Table(p. vii)
• Preface(p. ix)
• Acknowledgements(p. xi)
• Notes on Contributors(p. xii)
• Introduction: Projecting the Urban(p. 1)
• Part I Projecting the City: Place, Space and Identity(p. 19)
• 1 'Old World Traditions ... and Modernity' in Cunard's Transatlantic Films, c. 1920-35: Making Connections between Early Promotional Films and Urban Change(p. 21)
• 2 Nice: Virtual City(p. 36)
• 3 Visions of Community: The Postwar Housing Problem in Sponsored and Amateur Films(p. 50)
• 4 'City of Change and Challenge': The Cine-Societies' Response to the Redevelopment of Liverpool in the 1960s(p. 69)
• Part II Of Time and the City: Landscapes of Memory and Absence(p. 89)
• 5 Towards a History of Empty Spaces(p. 91)
• 6 Tacita Dean's Optics of Refusal(p. 104)
• 7 Searching for the City: Cinema and the Critique of Urban Space in the Films of Keiller, Cohen, and Steinmetz and Chanan(p. 114)
• 8 A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau and KZ Munich(p. 125)
• Part III Cinematic Cartography: Film, Mapping and Urban Topography(p. 141)
• 9 Mapping the City through Film: From 'Topophilia' to Urban Mapscapes(p. 144)
• 10 Towards (East) London 2012: Emily Richardson's Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009), and the Work of Iain Sinclair(p. 156)
• 11 The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895-1914)(p. 169)
• 12 Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism(p. 183)
• Part IV Cine-Tecture: Film, Architecture and Narrativity(p. 205)
• 13 Cine-Montage: The Spatial Editing of Cities(p. 208)
• 14 Informing Contemporary Architectural and Urban Design with Historic Filmic Evidence(p. 222)
• 15 The Real City in the Reel City: Towards a Methodology through the Case of Amélie(p. 233)
• 16 Let Architecture 'Play' Itself: A Case Study(p. 253)
• Index(p. 271)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Richard Koeck is a lecturer in Architecture at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA). He is an architect and filmmaker, whose work has been exhibited internationally, such as at the Architectural Biennale in Venice. He is the author of Cine-Scapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities.
Les Roberts is a research associate in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published widely on issues of place, space and visual culture, and is the author of Film, Mobility and Urban Space: A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool.