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Cinematic Urban Geographies

PUBLISHER Palgrave MacMillan (07/13/2017)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)

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1. Introduction

Part I. Cartographic Cinema: Maps in Films and Maps as Mental Cinema

2. The cinema in the map - the case of Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum

3. Cinematic cartographies of urban space and the descriptive spectacle of aerial views (1898-1948).

4. Charting the Criminal: Maps as devices for orientation and control in Fritz Lang s "M" (1931) and Francesco Rosi s "Hands Over the City" (1963)

Part II. 'Movie Centric' Map of Cities - Map-Reading and Cin-Tourism

5. 'Merely local': film and the depiction of place, especially in local documentary

6. The Cine-Tourist's Map of New Wave Paris

7. Set-jetting, Film Pilgrimage and The Third Man.

Part III. Films as Sites of Memories - Lieux De Mmoires

8. The Cinematic Shtetl as a Site of Postmemory

9. "Where Is The Dust That Has Not Been Alive?" Screening The Vanished Polis In Stirbitch: An Imaginary

10. Melancholy Urbanism: Distant Horizons and the Presentation of Place

Part IV. Cinematic Topographies within Their Social & Cultural Practices

11. Cinematic urban archaeology - the Battersea case

12. The cinematic and the televisual city: south London revisited

13. Los Angeles and Hollywood in Film and French Theory: Agns Varda's Lions Love (1969) and Edgar Morin's California Journal (1970)

Part V. Database Cinema: Visualising the Cinematic Urban Archaeology and Geo-Locating Movies in the City

14. Urban Cinematic Palimpsests: Moving Image Databases for the City

15. Geographies of the Moving Image: Translating cinematic representation into geographic information

16. Ghost Cinema App: Temporal Ubiquity and the Condition of Being in Everytime


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ISBN-13: 9781137468307
ISBN-10: 1137468300
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 350
Carton Quantity: 18
Product Dimensions: 5.83 x 0.88 x 8.27 inches
Weight: 1.31 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Illustrated
Country of Origin: NL
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Science | General
Science | General
Science | Film - History & Criticism
Dewey Decimal: 791.436
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017940414
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1. Introduction

Part I. Cartographic Cinema: Maps in Films and Maps as Mental Cinema

2. The cinema in the map - the case of Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum

3. Cinematic cartographies of urban space and the descriptive spectacle of aerial views (1898-1948).

4. Charting the Criminal: Maps as devices for orientation and control in Fritz Lang s "M" (1931) and Francesco Rosi s "Hands Over the City" (1963)

Part II. 'Movie Centric' Map of Cities - Map-Reading and Cin-Tourism

5. 'Merely local': film and the depiction of place, especially in local documentary

6. The Cine-Tourist's Map of New Wave Paris

7. Set-jetting, Film Pilgrimage and The Third Man.

Part III. Films as Sites of Memories - Lieux De Mmoires

8. The Cinematic Shtetl as a Site of Postmemory

9. "Where Is The Dust That Has Not Been Alive?" Screening The Vanished Polis In Stirbitch: An Imaginary

10. Melancholy Urbanism: Distant Horizons and the Presentation of Place

Part IV. Cinematic Topographies within Their Social & Cultural Practices

11. Cinematic urban archaeology - the Battersea case

12. The cinematic and the televisual city: south London revisited

13. Los Angeles and Hollywood in Film and French Theory: Agns Varda's Lions Love (1969) and Edgar Morin's California Journal (1970)

Part V. Database Cinema: Visualising the Cinematic Urban Archaeology and Geo-Locating Movies in the City

14. Urban Cinematic Palimpsests: Moving Image Databases for the City

15. Geographies of the Moving Image: Translating cinematic representation into geographic information

16. Ghost Cinema App: Temporal Ubiquity and the Condition of Being in Everytime


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Editor: Penz, Francois
Francois Penz teaches in the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. Maureen Thomas is Head of Screen Studies at the National Film School, UK.
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