The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Table......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: Projecting the Urban......Page 18
Part I: Projecting the City: Place, Space and Identity......Page 36
1 'Old World Traditions … and Modernity' in Cunard's Transatlantic Films, c. 1920–35: Making Connections between Early Promotional Films and Urban Change......Page 38
2 Nice: Virtual City......Page 53
3 Visions of Community: The Postwar Housing Problem in Sponsored and Amateur Films......Page 67
4 'City of Change and Challenge': The Cine-Societies' Response to the Redevelopment of Liverpool in the 1960s......Page 86
Part II: Of Time and the City: Landscapes of Memory and Absence......Page 106
5 Towards a History of Empty Spaces......Page 108
6 Tacita Dean's Optics of Refusal......Page 121
7 Searching for the City: Cinema and the Critique of Urban Space in the Films of Keiller, Cohen, and Steinmetz and Chanan......Page 131
8 A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau and KZ Munich......Page 142
Part III: Cinematic Cartography: Film, Mapping and Urban Topography......Page 158
9 Mapping the City through Film: From ‘Topophilia' to Urban Mapscapes......Page 161
10 Towards (East) London 2012: Emily Richardson's Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009), and the Work of Iain Sinclair......Page 173
11 The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895–1914)......Page 186
12 Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism......Page 200
Part IV: Cine-Tecture: Film, Architecture and Narrativity......Page 222
13 Cine-Montage: The Spatial Editing of Cities......Page 225
14 Informing Contemporary Architectural and Urban Design with Historic Filmic Evidence......Page 239
15 The Real City in the Reel City: Towards a Methodology through the Case of Amélie......Page 250
16 Let Architecture 'Play' Itself: A Case Study......Page 270
Index......Page 288