Narrating the city : mediated representations of architecture, urban forms and social life /
'Narrating the City' examines how film and related visual media offer insights and commentary on the city as both a constructed object and a lived social experience. It brings together filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol, UK ; Chicago :
Intellect Books,
[2020]
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| Series: | Mediated cities series.
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| Summary: | 'Narrating the City' examines how film and related visual media offer insights and commentary on the city as both a constructed object and a lived social experience. It brings together filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret and create narratives of the city. Analyzing a variety of international films and placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies, the authors explore the expanding range of mediated narratives of contemporary architecture and urban culture from both a media and a sociological standpoint.0The authors explore how moving-image narratives can create cinematic topographies, presenting familiar cities and modes of seeing in unfamiliar ways. The authors then turn to the new age of digital image making and consumption, revealing new techniques of representation, mediation and augmentation of sensorial reality for city dwellers. The book's emphasis on narrative also offers insights into critical societal issues including cultural identity, diversity, memory and spatial politics, as they are both informed by and represented in various media. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781789382716 1789382718 |