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Film and Urban Space : Critical Possibilities / Rose Marie San Juan, Geraldine Pratt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 72 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748623839
  • 9780748630202
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 791.436552
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C513 P73 2014
  • PN1995.9 .C513
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The View from the Street: the Politics of Shooting on Location -- 2. Movement and the Street: the Potential of Cinematic Time -- 3. Remembering to Forget to Remember: the Persistence of Memory and the Cinematic City -- 4. Cinema and its Publics: Between the Screen and the Street -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Traces the dynamic relationship between film and cityHow are the political possibilities of film related to urban space? What are the ethical implications of representing urban space on film? How does the use of urban space help to theorise film?Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities traces recurring debates about what constitutes film's political potential and argues that the relation between film and urban space has been crucial to these debates and their historical transformations. The book demonstrates that in the attempt to follow certain prescriptions - shooting on location, disrupting normalizing time, experimenting with memory, interlinking the spaces of screen and cinema - films invariably use the relation between film and urban space as a kind of laboratory, testing anew received prescriptions but invariably encountering new opportunities and new limits. A wide range of key films, from Dziga Vertov's 1929 Man with a Movie Camera to Jia Zhangke's 2008 24 City, are discussed in depth, each offering an argument for how the encounter between specific manifestations of modern urban space and politically engaged film strategies has served to challenge the status quo and stimulate critical thinking.An insightful and thought-provoking read, Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities presents scholars and advanced students in Film Studies with a compelling argument for the impact of urban space in creating film's critical political and ethical possibilities.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The View from the Street: the Politics of Shooting on Location -- 2. Movement and the Street: the Potential of Cinematic Time -- 3. Remembering to Forget to Remember: the Persistence of Memory and the Cinematic City -- 4. Cinema and its Publics: Between the Screen and the Street -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Traces the dynamic relationship between film and cityHow are the political possibilities of film related to urban space? What are the ethical implications of representing urban space on film? How does the use of urban space help to theorise film?Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities traces recurring debates about what constitutes film's political potential and argues that the relation between film and urban space has been crucial to these debates and their historical transformations. The book demonstrates that in the attempt to follow certain prescriptions - shooting on location, disrupting normalizing time, experimenting with memory, interlinking the spaces of screen and cinema - films invariably use the relation between film and urban space as a kind of laboratory, testing anew received prescriptions but invariably encountering new opportunities and new limits. A wide range of key films, from Dziga Vertov's 1929 Man with a Movie Camera to Jia Zhangke's 2008 24 City, are discussed in depth, each offering an argument for how the encounter between specific manifestations of modern urban space and politically engaged film strategies has served to challenge the status quo and stimulate critical thinking.An insightful and thought-provoking read, Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities presents scholars and advanced students in Film Studies with a compelling argument for the impact of urban space in creating film's critical political and ethical possibilities.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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