Documenting cityscapes : urban change in contemporary non-fiction film /
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 cit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Nonfictions.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231174527 0231174527 |