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Documenting cityscapes : urban change in contemporary non-fiction film / Iv�an Villarmea �Alvarez.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: NonfictionsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231850780
  • 0231850786
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Documenting Cityscapes : Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film.DDC classification:
  • 791.43
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C513 A483 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Place, Images and Meanings -- 1. On City and Cinema -- 2. Documentary Film at the Turn of the Century -- Landscaping -- Introduction -- 3. Observational Landscaping -- 4. Psychogeographical Landscaping -- 5. Autobiographical Landscaping -- Urban Self-Portraits -- Introduction -- 6. Self-Portrait as Socio-Political Documentary -- 7. Self-Portrait as Essay Film -- 8. Self-Portrait as Self-Fiction -- Metafilmic Strategies -- Introduction -- 9. Inside Hollywood Film -- Conclusion: Cinema as Agent of Urban Change -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Place, Images and Meanings -- 1. On City and Cinema -- 2. Documentary Film at the Turn of the Century -- Landscaping -- Introduction -- 3. Observational Landscaping -- 4. Psychogeographical Landscaping -- 5. Autobiographical Landscaping -- Urban Self-Portraits -- Introduction -- 6. Self-Portrait as Socio-Political Documentary -- 7. Self-Portrait as Essay Film -- 8. Self-Portrait as Self-Fiction -- Metafilmic Strategies -- Introduction -- 9. Inside Hollywood Film -- Conclusion: Cinema as Agent of Urban Change -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

Iv�an Villarmea �Alvarez is a film critic and researcher who specializes in the representation of the city in film. He coedits the online film journal A Cuarta Parede and is the coeditor of the volume Jugar con la Memoria. El Cine Portugu�es en el Siglo XXI.

In English.

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