Motion Pictures and the Image of the City

A Documentary Interpretation
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-658-14339-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 3202 g

Reihe: Film und Bewegtbild in Kultur und Gesellschaft

If you’ve ever had a special attachment to a film, and also an attachment to the city it was shot in, Xiaofei Haos book will give you a fresh eye on how the city is expressed in the film by the filmmaker. From the perspective of social science, each face of the city in a film comes from a choice – shown only on the basis of the filmmakers’ selection criteria. In this process, the film becomes the cognitive map of that city. The interweaving of the city space and film language will be elaborated first from the perspective of urban studies. Then some viewpoints of tourism studies will be provided to explore the relation between the image of the city in the film and in reality. Two films about the city Taipei are looked at as case studies: A One and a Two (Yi Yi, Director Edward Yang, 2000) and Au Revoir Taipei (Director Arvin Chen, 2010).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hao, Xiaofei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Lynch’s image system.- The language of film.- A One and a Two: Nostalgia upon Diaspora.- Au Revoir Taipei: Tourist view on the space of empathy.- City, Film and Destination: Comparative analysis.

Über Autor(innen)

Ph.D Xiaofei Hao is a Lecturer at the Department of Event Management, School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her research interests include film language interpretation, film tourism, and visual culture.