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Book SynopsisFilming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urban relevance, offering contemporary criticisms of both film and urbanism from conflicting perspectives, and documenting examples of how to actively use the medium of film in the design of our cities, spaces and buildings. Bringing a diverse set of contributors to the collection, editors Edward M. Clift, Mirko Guaralda and Ari Mattes offer readers a new approach to understanding the complex, multi-layered interaction of urban design and film.
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Graham Cairns Introduction
Edward M. Clift Section One: Film as Spatial Theory
Various Chapter One: Unlawful entry: The imbrication of suburban space and police repression in Jonathan Kaplan's Los Angeles
Ari Mattes Chapter Two: Blockbuster realism: Mapping Gotham in the Dark Knight films
Jarrad Cogle Chapter Three: (Re-) Framing urbanity: Contestation, the moving image and the right to the city
Joern W. Langhorst Chapter Four: Architects of Playtime: Cities as social media in the work of Jaques Tati
Lisa Landrum Chapter Five: Film and the urban nightmare: Pier Vittorio Aureli's cityarchipelagos as urbanities woven from media images in Pete Travis's Dredd and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises
Maciej Stasiowski Section Two: Film as Spatial Research and Experiment
Various Chapter Six: Hollywood menace: Los Angeles and mid-century modern dens of vice
Gabriel Solomons Chapter Seven: A second life for a second city: Tradition and modernity in Guadalajara in the Summer
Carmen Elisa Gómez-Gomez Chapter Eight: The cinematic image as an architectural conductor: A mediated hint from future architecture
Aysegül Akçay Kavakoglu Chapter Nine: Berlin on film: A mediated and reconstructed city
Graham Cairns Section Three: Film as Spatial Practice
Various Chapter Ten: The grey area between reality and representation: The practices of architects and film-makers
Gemma Barton Chapter Eleven: Electric Signs revisited
Alice Arnold Chapter Twelve: Public and urban humanities: Beyond the ideal city
Luisa Bravo Chapter Thirteen: The mediating city: Towards a mise-en-scéne for interaction online
Benjamin Koslowski Epilogue
Ari Mattes and Mirko Guaralda
