Film and Urban Space

Informationen zum Autor Geraldine Pratt is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. She is author of Working Feminism and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love, co-author of Gender, Work and Space, and co-editor of The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time and the 4th and 5th editions of the Dictionary of Human Geography. She co-authored with Caleb Johnston Nanay: a testimonial play, which has been performed in Vancouver, Berlin and Manila. Rose Marie San Juan teaches and writes on early modern Italian art and culture and the relation between urban space and visual technologies. Before moving to University College London in 2005, she was at the University of British Columbia. Her publications include Rome: a city out of print (2001), on the role of print culture within urban change; and Vertiginous Mirrors: The animation of the visual image and early modern travel (2011), on the journeys of images from Europe to India, Brazil and Chile. Klappentext How are the political possibilities of film related to urban space? What is to be gained from theorising urban space and film together? How does cinema persist as public space? Film and Urban Space 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 certain recurring prescriptions - shooting on location, disrupting normalising time, experimenting with memory, interlinking the spaces of screen and cinema - draw on the relation between film and urban space as a kind of laboratory. As these prescriptions have been tested anew in different circumstances new opportunities and new limits invariably have been encountered, in part because of the dynamism of urban space. A wide range of key films, from Dziga Vertov's 1928 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 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. Geraldine Pratt is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Rose Marie San Juan is Professor of History of Art at University College London. Cover image: Gastown Drive In 2008 (c) Gavin Mackenzie, courtesy of Urban Republic Arts Society Cover design: www.paulsmithdesign.com Zusammenfassung How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing ideas of modern urban life? How does film intervene with what is erased or retained from the existing urban fabric? What are the possibilities and limits of contemporary utopic visions built into urban form? This title deals with these questions. ...

Klappentext

How are the political possibilities of film related to urban space? What is to be gained from theorising urban space and film together? How does cinema persist as public space? Film and Urban Space 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 certain recurring prescriptions - shooting on location, disrupting normalising time, experimenting with memory, interlinking the spaces of screen and cinema - draw on the relation between film and urban space as a kind of laboratory. As these prescriptions have been tested anew in different circumstances new opportunities and new limits invariably have been encountered, in part because of the dynamism of urban space. A wide range of key films, from Dziga Vertov's 1928 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 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. Geraldine Pratt is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Rose Marie San Juan is Professor of History of Art at University College London. Cover image: Gastown Drive In 2008 (c) Gavin Mackenzie, courtesy of Urban Republic Arts Society Cover design: www.paulsmithdesign.com

Zusammenfassung
How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing ideas of modern urban life? How does film intervene with what is erased or retained from the existing urban fabric? What are the possibilities and limits of contemporary utopic visions built into urban form? This title deals with these questions.