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Documenting Cityscapes: Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film
Iván Villarmea Álvarez
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Paperback. Series: Nonfictions. Num Pages: 240 pages, 24 b&w. BIC Classification: APFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting Cityscapes explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s, paying particular attention to three aesthetic tendencies: documentary landscaping, urban self-portraits, and metafilmic strategies. Through the formal analysis of fifteen works from six different countries, this volume investigates how the rise of subjectivity has helped to develop a kind of gaze that ... Read more
While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting Cityscapes explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s, paying particular attention to three aesthetic tendencies: documentary landscaping, urban self-portraits, and metafilmic strategies. Through the formal analysis of fifteen works from six different countries, this volume investigates how the rise of subjectivity has helped to develop a kind of gaze that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Nonfictions
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174534
SKU
V9780231174534
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About Iván Villarmea Álvarez
Ivan Villarmea Alvarez is a film critic and researcher who specializes in the representation of the city in film. He coedits the online film journal A Cuarta Parede and is the coeditor of the volume Jugar con la memoria. El cine Portugues en el siglo XXI.
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