Narrating the City : Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life.

Considers how film and related visual media offer insights into the city, looking at the built environment as well as a lived social experience. It brings together an international group of filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret and...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Akçay Kavakoğlu, Ayşegül.
Other Authors: Hacıömerolu, Türkan Nihan., Landrum, Lisa., Cairns, Graham.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, 2020.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Narrative Topographies of City and Urban Culture in Moving Images in the Age of Digitalization -- Notes -- Part I Identity in Mediated Realms -- 1 Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Awry -- Reality television -- Dystopian visions -- Antagonistic awry spaces -- Lessons of parallaxical identities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Materiality and the Maternal:: Spatial Politics and Agency of the Cinematic Apartment in Japanese Horror Films -- Introduction -- (En)Gendering the home and body 
505 8 |a Dark Water: Returning to the maternal space -- Space and unmothering desires in Kotoko -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Tehran Has No Soul! -- Introduction -- Fireworks Wednesday -- Tranquility in the Presence of Others -- The city and the representation of memory -- A city ruled by class -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 The Unconscious and the City:: A Neuropsychoanalytic Exploration of Cinematic Space -- Introduction -- Influence of Mars: The neuroscientific unconscious and the cinematic space -- Unhomely Street: The unconscious and the city 
505 8 |a Psychotel: Psychogeography in Istanbul -- Psychotel: Metaphor and mind -- Conclusion: Minds and maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 A Vision of Complexity:: From Meaning and Form to Pattern and Code -- Information, ubiquity, form and space -- Techniques in cinematic vision: From flânerie to cinéma-vérité -- Space-time inflection point -- Design, space and the moving image: The film work of the Eames -- Glimpses of the USA and Think -- Computer vision: On meaning in pattern and code -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Narrated Diversity of Filmic Urban Culture 
505 8 |a 6 Architecture of Constructed Situation:: Understanding the Perception of Urban Space through Media -- Introduction -- The first situation: Dialectic montage -- The second situation: Distracted perception -- Conclusion: Implication -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Polyphonic Asia:: Contemporary City Symphonies of Singapore and Seoul -- Introduction -- Asian global cities on film -- Singapore GaGa -- Bitter, Sweet, Seoul -- Empowered by film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Cinema and the Walled City -- From Belfast to West Bank via Berlin -- Walls in the city -- City wall as a protector 
505 8 |a City wall as a divider -- City wall as a symbol -- City wall as a landmark -- City wall as a space -- City wall as a fetish -- Against the wall -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Architectures of the Suspended Moment -- Art as civic imaginary -- A Happy Moment -- Mare Street and Pembury Estate -- Representations of space, spaces of representation -- The utopic gaze -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Narrated Memories of Mediated Urban Life -- 10 The City Is a Changing Medium:: Imagining New York and Los Angeles in Doug Aitken's Work -- Embodying the city: Sleepwalkers 
500 |a Sleepwalking the installation. 
520 |a Considers how film and related visual media offer insights into the city, looking at the built environment as well as a lived social experience. It brings together an international group of filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret and create narratives of the city. 80 b/w illus. 
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650 0 |a Cities and towns in motion pictures. 
650 0 |a City and town life in motion pictures. 
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700 1 |a Hacıömerolu, Türkan Nihan. 
700 1 |a Landrum, Lisa. 
700 1 |a Cairns, Graham. 
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