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Documenting cityscapes : urban change in contemporary non-fiction film
- Title
- Documenting cityscapes : urban change in contemporary non-fiction film / Iván Villarmea Álvarez.
- Author
- Villarmea Álvarez, Iván
- Publication
- London ; New York : Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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- Description
- viii, 246 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- 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." -- Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Nonfictions
- Uniform Title
- Nonfictions.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 15-4158
- ISBN
- 9780231174527
- 0231174527
- 9780231174534
- 0231174535
- OCLC
- 907631367
- Author
- Villarmea Álvarez, Iván, author.
- Title
- Documenting cityscapes : urban change in contemporary non-fiction film / Iván Villarmea Álvarez.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- NonfictionsNonfictions.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 15-4158