Research Catalog

Title

Film, mobility and urban space : a cinematic geography of Liverpool / Les Roberts.

Author

Roberts, Les, 1966-

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

xvi, 248 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Drawing on multi-disciplinary debates surrounding the cultural production of place, space and memory in the post-industrial city, Film, Mobility and Urban Space explores the role of moving images in representations and perceptions of everyday urban landscapes. The arguments put forward in the book are based on a case study of Liverpool in the north west of England and draw from a unique spatial database of over 1700 archive films of the city from 1897 to the present day. Theoretically wide-ranging in scope, Les Roberts's study combines critical spatial analysis, archival research and qualitative methods to navigate a city's cinematic geographies as mapped across a broad spectrum of film genres, including amateur film, travelogues, newsreels, promotional films, documentaries and features"--Jacket.

Subject

• Motion pictures
• Städer i filmen
• Liverpool på film
• Staden på film
• Liverpool (England) > In motion pictures
• England > Liverpool
• Storbritannien > Liverpool

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index.

Contents

Cinematic geography: mobilizing the archive city -- Incriminated medium? The city as urban spectacle -- Cityscapes: panoramas and the mobile gaze -- City limits: crossing boundaries of place and identity -- Movie-mapping: cinematographic tourism and place-marketing -- World in one city: travel, globalization and placeless space -- Cinematic cartography: mapping the archive city.

ISBN

• 9781846317576
• 1846317576

OCLC

• ocn760973350
• 760973350
• SCSB-9713601

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library