Cinematic urban geographies. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: François Penz, Richard Koeck, editors.
• Editors: Penz, François; Koeck, Richard, 1969-
• Contents: Cinematic Urban Geographies; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Part I Cartographic Cinema: Maps in Films and Maps as Mental Cinema; Part II 'Movie Centric' Map of Cities -- Map-Reading and Ciné-Tourism; Part III Films as Sites of Memories -- Lieux De Mémoires; Part IV Cinematic Topographies Within Their Social and Cultural Practices; Part V Database Cinema: Visualising the Cinematic Urban Archaeology and Geo-Locating Movies in the City; References; 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 TerrarumIntroduction; Maps and Atlas as Pre-Cinematic Devices; A Case Study of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum Map of Cambridge; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Cinematic Cartographies of Urban Space and the Descriptive Spectacle of Aerial Views (1898-1948); Describing the New Cityscape: Cinema, Aerial Views and the Origins of the Modern Metropolis; Early Filmic Portrayals of the Modern Metropolis and the Physiognomy of the City; 'Cine-Sensations' of the City; The Anxious Spectacle or the City as Aerial Target; Notes. Vienna and The Third Man: A City and the Business of CinephiliaReferences; Part III Films as Sites of Memories -- Lieux de Mémoires; 8 The Cinematic Shtetl as a Site of Postmemory; The Cinematic Shtetl and the Recovery of Lost Memories; Postmemory and the Journey to the Shtetl; Notes; References; Filmography; 9 'Where Is the Dust That Has Not Been Alive?': Screening the Vanished Polis in Stirbitch: An Imaginary; Notes; Works Cited; 10 Melancholy Urbanism: Distant Horizons and the Presentation of Place; Melancholy and Romanticism; Horizontality; Melancholy and the Body; Melancholy and Loss. Horizons of UnderstandingRooftopping the Sublime; Melancholy and Reflexivity; Conclusion; References; Part IV Cinematic Topographies Within Their Social and Cultural Practices; 11 Cinematic Urban Archaeology: The Battersea Case; Introduction; Hard City: The Survey of London and Cinematic Urban Archaeology; Cinematic Urban Archaeology -- Changes in the Fabric of the City; Cinematic Urban Archaeology -- Stories of Urban Life (Social and Cultural Trends); Cinematic Urban Archaeology -- A Cross Sectional Analysis of Poor Cow (1967); The 'Hard City' -- The Point of View of the Urban Historian.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43/6; Geography in motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Geography in motion pictures; Cultural and Media Studies; Film Theory; Film History; Urban Studies/Sociology; Close Reading; Global Cinema; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Social Science -- Sociology -- Urban; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Films, cinema; Sociology; Film, TV & radio; Motion pictures; Sociology, Urban; Film theory & criticism; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137460844; 1137460849; 1137468300; 9781137468307
• Related ISBNs: 9781137468307
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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