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Filming the City

Urban Documents, Design Practices and Social Criticism through the Lens
By Mirko Guaralda and Ari Mattes
Series: Mediated Cities
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Filming the City explores the intersection of film and urbanism through the insights of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists, and media specialists. The book offers three perspectives: commentaries on films and their social and urban relevance, contemporary critiques of film and urbanism, and practical examples of using film as a tool in city and architectural design. Edited by Edward Clift, Ari Mattes, and Mirko Guaralda, it unveils the complex relationship between cinematic medium and urban spaces.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in the convergence of architecture, urban design, and film studies, including professionals and scholars in arts, culture, and media disciplines.

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Filming 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 Clift, Ari Mattes, and Mirko Guaralda offer readers a new approach to understanding the complex, multilayered interaction of urban design and film.

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    Filming the City
    Filming 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...
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    Transformations
    The contributors to Transformations explore the interactions between people and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways in which people inhabit, imagine, and shape their cities. Drawing on the work of global artists, from Cambodia to Australia, New Zealand to the United States, this collection investigates the politics and democratization of space through an examination...
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  • Equality in the City
    Equality in the City
    A compelling critique of smart city rhetoric. Equality in the City engenders a timely debate about what future cities might look like and what their concerns should be. Using a multi-disciplinary perspective, it features acclaimed scholars whose work investigates the proposed networked, digital technologies that ostensibly affect planning policies, control infrastructures, and deliver and manage city services and systems. The...
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Choice praises the collection for examining the relationship between architecture and film in a contemporary, 21st-century context, highlighting international trends and innovative creative works emerging from this interdisciplinary nexus.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783205547

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Contributors:

  • Series edited by Graham Cairns
  • Edited by Edward M. Clift
  • Series edited by Graham Cairns

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 280

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Ari Mattes Arts & Culture Education & Reference Mirko Guaralda Non-Fiction Series: Mediated Cities

About the Author

Edward M. Clift is president of Brooks Institute in Ventura, California. Mirko Guaralda is a senior lecturer in architecture at the Queensland University of Technology.  Ari Mattes is a lecturer in media studies at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Graham Cairns is a visiting scholar in architecture and design at both Florida State University and Ravensbourne, UK.

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