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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New York :
Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Nonfictions.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: place, images and meanings
- 1. On city and cinema
- 2. Documentary film at the turn of the century
- 3. Observational landscaping
- 4. Psychogeographical landscaping
- 5. Autobiographical landscaping
- 6. Self-portrait as socio-political documentary
- 7. Self-portrait as essay film
- 8. Self-portrait as self-fiction
- 9. Inside Hollywood film
- Conclusion: cinema as agent of urban change.