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    Kari Jormakka (Hg.) ° CITY+CINEMA. Essays on the Specificity of Location in Film

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    The essays in Datutop 29 offer a contribution to the discours concerning the city and cinema within the genre of the “city film”. Instead of postulating the generic city as the terminal condition of contemporary urbanism, it is argued that each place has its own uniqueness, its own history, and its own unique physical structure, pace popular glosses on greater homogeneity within ever-expanding globalization, or visions of cyber technologies bringing about the dissolution of space and the dematerialisation of the city.

    Essays, 224 Seiten

    Sprache: Englisch
    DATUTOP 29

    Broschur
    13.8 * 20.9 cm
    € 14.60 [D], € 15.00 [A]
    erschienen Herbst 2007

    TITEL VERGRIFFEN!

    In 1928, architecture historian Siegfried Giedion declared that only film can make the new architecture intelligible. For him, only a dynamic medium such as the cinema could capture the simultaneities and blurred boundaries of the contemporary city and communicate the new worldview across cultural and ethnic borders. Similarly, Le Corbusier argued that the silent film, as a purely visual medium, passes over frontiers, just like the aeroplane.

    In recent years, the early modernists’ enthusiasm for the cinema has not only been matched but actually surpassed, with architects increasingly replacing the tectonic with the image in their effort to express the changeability of the built environment and to capture the non-representational, event-like, fluid character of the city as a generic form liberated from identity and resisting any sociological explanations.

    With contributions by: Marcelino Santos; Henry Bacon; Robert Jan van Pelt; Doug Graf; Stijn Colpaert; Jean-Louis Rivard; Audrey Yue; M. Christine Boyer; Felicity Collins; Roy Armes; Gareth Griffiths; Dörte Kuhlmann; Terri Meyer Boake; Kari Jormakka; Arturo Silva and Djamel Zeniti