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Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities
Geraldine Pratt
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Description for Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities
Paperback. Drawing on films as diverse as Man with a Movie Camera, Bicycle Thieves, Dogville, Safe, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Chungking Express and The Circle, this book identifies and analyses the major debates about the crucial historical relationship between film and the city to consider existing and future possibilities. Num Pages: 192 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
This book traces the dynamic relationship between film and the city. How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing ideas of modern urban life? How does film intervene with what is erased or retained from the existing urban fabric? What are the possibilities and limits of contemporary utopic visions built into urban form? How does film itself work as a utopic space? How has the space of the cinema created a vibrant public space over the course of last century, and what is its future? These are some of the questions tackled in this ... Read more
This book traces the dynamic relationship between film and the city. How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing ideas of modern urban life? How does film intervene with what is erased or retained from the existing urban fabric? What are the possibilities and limits of contemporary utopic visions built into urban form? How does film itself work as a utopic space? How has the space of the cinema created a vibrant public space over the course of last century, and what is its future? These are some of the questions tackled in this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748623846
SKU
V9780748623846
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About Geraldine Pratt
Geraldine Pratt is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Rose Marie San Juan is Reader in the History of Art Department, University College London.
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