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Author Akçay Kavakoğlu, Ayşegül.

Title Narrating the City : Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life
Published Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages)
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Contents Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Narrative Topographies of City and Urban Culture in Moving Images in the Age of Digitalization -- Notes -- Part I Identity in Mediated Realms -- 1 Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Awry -- Reality television -- Dystopian visions -- Antagonistic awry spaces -- Lessons of parallaxical identities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Materiality and the Maternal:: Spatial Politics and Agency of the Cinematic Apartment in Japanese Horror Films -- Introduction -- (En)Gendering the home and body
Dark Water: Returning to the maternal space -- Space and unmothering desires in Kotoko -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Tehran Has No Soul! -- Introduction -- Fireworks Wednesday -- Tranquility in the Presence of Others -- The city and the representation of memory -- A city ruled by class -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 The Unconscious and the City:: A Neuropsychoanalytic Exploration of Cinematic Space -- Introduction -- Influence of Mars: The neuroscientific unconscious and the cinematic space -- Unhomely Street: The unconscious and the city
Psychotel: Psychogeography in Istanbul -- Psychotel: Metaphor and mind -- Conclusion: Minds and maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 A Vision of Complexity:: From Meaning and Form to Pattern and Code -- Information, ubiquity, form and space -- Techniques in cinematic vision: From flânerie to cinéma-vérité -- Space-time inflection point -- Design, space and the moving image: The film work of the Eames -- Glimpses of the USA and Think -- Computer vision: On meaning in pattern and code -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Narrated Diversity of Filmic Urban Culture
6 Architecture of Constructed Situation:: Understanding the Perception of Urban Space through Media -- Introduction -- The first situation: Dialectic montage -- The second situation: Distracted perception -- Conclusion: Implication -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Polyphonic Asia:: Contemporary City Symphonies of Singapore and Seoul -- Introduction -- Asian global cities on film -- Singapore GaGa -- Bitter, Sweet, Seoul -- Empowered by film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Cinema and the Walled City -- From Belfast to West Bank via Berlin -- Walls in the city -- City wall as a protector
City wall as a divider -- City wall as a symbol -- City wall as a landmark -- City wall as a space -- City wall as a fetish -- Against the wall -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Architectures of the Suspended Moment -- Art as civic imaginary -- A Happy Moment -- Mare Street and Pembury Estate -- Representations of space, spaces of representation -- The utopic gaze -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Narrated Memories of Mediated Urban Life -- 10 The City Is a Changing Medium:: Imagining New York and Los Angeles in Doug Aitken's Work -- Embodying the city: Sleepwalkers
Summary Considers how film and related visual media offer insights into the city, looking at the built environment as well as a lived social experience. It brings together an international group of filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret and create narratives of the city. 80 b/w illus
Notes Sleepwalking the installation
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Subject Architecture in motion pictures.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Architecture in motion pictures.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.
ARCHITECTURE / General
Form Electronic book
Author Hacıömerolu, Türkan Nihan
Landrum, Lisa
Cairns, Graham.
ISBN 1789382734
9781789382730
9781789382723
1789382726