The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over
the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up
in their cinematic portrayals. We have seen the landmarks of New
York, London and Tokyo turn into iconic symbols of wealth, power,
status, style and culture, and for the majority of people the
images and sounds of movies form the only experience they will ever
have of distant cities. Cinematic Urbanism presents an urban
history of modernity and postmodernity through the lens of cinema.
AlSayyad traces the dissolution of the boundary between real and
reel through time and space via a series of films that represent
different modernities. They include: Cinema Paradiso It's a
Wonderful Life Metropolis Brazil Blade Runner Annie Hall Taxi
Driver Do the Right Thing My Beautiful Laundrette The Truman Show.
Alsayyad argues that our understanding of the city cannot be viewed
independently of cinematic experience. Films do not only capture
the depiction of a society; they influence the way we construct
images of the world and, as a result, how we operate within it. We
are beginning to blur the distinction between what is real in the
everyday, and how we imagine the everyday. Cinematic Urbanism
explores this dynamic, bringing together insights from urban and
film studies to illuminate current architectural debate. .
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