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Author:   Francois Penz ,  Andong Lu
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781841504285

ISBN 10:   1841504289
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   15 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction – François Penz and Andong Lu Part I: City symphonies: Montaged urban cinematic landscapes Chapter 1: Ciné-City strolls: Imagery, form, language and meaning of the city film – Helmut Weihsmann Chapter 2: I am here, or, the art of getting lost: Patrick Keiller and the new city symphony – Patrik Sjöberg Chapter 3: Get out of the car: A commentary – Thom Andersen Part II: Cinematic urban archaeology Chapter 4: Aids to objectivity? Photography, film and the new ‘science’ of urbanism – Nicholas Bullock Chapter 5: Which role for the cinema in a working-class city: The case of Saint-Etienne – Roger Odin Chapter 6: A film of two cities: Sean Connery’s Edinburgh – Murray Grigor Chapter 7: Film as re-imaging the modern space – Mark Lewis Part III: Geographies of the urban cinematic landscape Chapter 8: Mobility and global complexity in the work of Van der Keuken – Hing Tsang Chapter 9: From maps of ‘progress’ to crime maps (and back again?): The plasticity of the aerial shot in Mexican urban film – Celia Dunne Chapter 10: Night on Earth, urban wayfinding and everyday life – Andrew Otway Part IV: The cinematic in the urban Chapter 11: Sleepwalking from New York to Miami – Alison Butler Chapter 12: Film in our midst: City as cinematic archive – Rachel Moore Chapter 13: Parkour vision – Layla Curtis Part V: Cinematic urban design practice Chapter 14: Urban anagram: A bio-political reflection on cinema and city life – Maria Hellström Reimer Chapter 15: Reconsidering cinematic mapping: Halfway between collected subjectivity and projective mapping – Marc Boumeester Chapter 16: Mapping urban space: Moving image as a research tool – Wowo Ding Chapter 17: The moving image of the city: Expressive space/inhabitation/narrativity: Intensive studio workshop on 'Continuity of Action in Space' – Maureen Thomas  

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Francois Penz, an architect by training, teaches in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge. He co-founded Cambridge University Moving Image Studio and more recently the Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualisation and Communication where he runs the PhD programme. Andong Lu is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, a position he has held for the last two years.

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