262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Cinematic City offers an innovative and thought-provoking insight into cityscape and screenscape and their inter-connection. Illustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of films (from 'Bladerunner' to 'Little Caesar'), genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field. The key dimensions of film and urban theory are introduced before detailed... Read more
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
Biography
David Clarke is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Leeds.
'This innovative and thought-provoking study, utilising examples from 'Blade Runner' to Little Caesar', demonstrates how the city has undeniably shaped by the cinematic form, and how cinema owes much of its nature to the historical development of urban space.' - The Art Book Review Quarterly Issue 31
