Documenting Cityscapes : : Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film / / Iván Villarmea Álvarez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Álvarez, Iván Villarmea,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Nonfictions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 24 b&w

While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting Cityscapes explores the way the city has been d...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Place, Images and Meanings
• 1. On City and Cinema
• 2. Documentary Film at the Turn of the Century
• Landscaping
• Introduction
• 3. Observational Landscaping
• 4. Psychogeographical Landscaping
• 5. Autobiographical Landscaping
• Urban Self-Portraits
• Introduction
• 6. Self-Portrait as Socio-Political Documentary
• 7. Self-Portrait as Essay Film
• 8. Self-Portrait as Self-Fiction
• Metafilmic Strategies
• Introduction
• 9. Inside Hollywood Film
• Conclusion: Cinema as Agent of Urban Change
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index