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Narrating the City - Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life (Hardcover)
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Narrating the City - Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life (Hardcover)
Series: Mediated Cities
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Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing
them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and
emerging digital image-based technologies, the contributions
explore the expanding range of 'mediated' narratives of
contemporary architecture and urban culture from both a media and a
sociological standpoint. Each chapter presents an interesting
critical approach to the diversity of topics with clear explanation
of the contextual framework and methodology, and a consistent depth
of analysis. In the three sections of the book, authors underline
the continual role of film and media in creating moving image
narratives of the city, identifying how it creates cinematic - and
ever more frequently digital - topographies of contemporary urban
culture and architecture, re-presenting familiar cities, modes of
seeing, cultures and social questions in unfamiliar ways. This
filmic emphasis is placed into dialogue with a more diverse range
of related visual media, which illustrates the overlaps between
them and reveals how moving image technologies create unique visual
topographies of contemporary urban culture and architecture. In
making this shift from the filmic to the new age of digital image
making and alternative modes of image consumption, the book not
only reveals new techniques of representation, mediation and the
augmentation of sensorial reality for city dwellers; its emphasis
on 'narrative' offers insights into critical societal issues. These
include cultural identity, diversity, memory and spatial politics,
as they are both informed by and represented in various media. The
focus for the book is on how films can produce mediation of urban
life and culture by connecting the notions of identity, diversity
and memory. Both the subject and the approach are gaining in
popularity in recent years. This book's main feature is its dual
perspective, involving both practical and theoretical stances - and
it is this approach that makes it a particularly relevant and
original contribution. Primary readership will be academics,
scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students and practitioners
interested in architecture and media in general, film, moving
images, urban studies in particular. Also of relevance to
sociologists and those interested in cultural theory. The inclusion
of chapters on urban photography and art installations may also be
of interest to students and designers in these areas.
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