Documenting Cityscapes - Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-17453-4
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Nonfictions

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 is closer to citizens than to the institutions and corporations responsible for recent major transformations. Documenting Cityscapes therefore reveals the extent to which cinema has become an agent of urban change, in which certain films not only challenge the most controversial policies of late capitalism but also are able to produce spatiality themselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Álvarez, Iván Villarmea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Place, Images, and Meanings1. On City and Cinema2. Documentary Film at the Turn of the CenturyPart 1. Landscaping3. Observational Landscaping4. Psychogeographical Landscaping5. Autobiographical LandscapingPart 2. Urban Self-Portraits6. Self-Portrait as Socio-Political Documentary7. Self-Portrait as Essay Film8. Self-Portrait as Self-FictionPart 3. Metafilmic Strategies9. Inside Hollywood FilmConclusion: Cinema as Agent of Urban ChangeAppendixBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Iván Villarmea Álvarez 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 Portugués en el Siglo XXI.