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Summary
Summary
This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies.
Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the City's diverse essays explore visual representations of urbanism and modernity reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.
Author Notes
Alan Marcus is a Reader in Film and Visual Culture and Head of the Film Programme at the University of Aberdeen. He is a cultural historian and filmmaker and as former Director of the Centre for Screen Studies at the University of Manchester he chaired the international conference Visualising the City in 2005.
Dietrich Neumann is Professor for the History of Modern Architecture and Urban Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Vincent Scully Visiting Professor for the History of Architecture at Yale University.
Table of Contents
| Illustration Credits | p. vii |
| Contributors | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Introduction: Visualizing the City | p. 1 |
| Part I Reflecting on the City | p. 11 |
| 1 Haptic Space: Film and the Geography of Modernity | p. 13 |
| 2 Early Film and the Reproduction of Rio | p. 31 |
| 3 Visualizing the Urban Masses: Modern Architecture and Architectural Photography in Weimar Berlin | p. 51 |
| Part II Remembering and Reinventing the City | p. 73 |
| 4 Beautiful Dachau's Contested Urban Identity | p. 75 |
| 5 The Contested City: Beirut in Lebanese War Cinema | p. 97 |
| 6 Tribute in Light: Iconography of a Memorial | p. 111 |
| Part III Reframing and Reshaping the City | p. 125 |
| 7 Out on a Limb? Urban Traumas on the West Pacific Rim | p. 127 |
| 8 The City Being Itself? The Case of Paris in La Haine | p. 143 |
| 9 Composing London Visually | p. 159 |
| Part IV Revisualizing the City | p. 179 |
| 10 The VJ of the Everyday: Remixing the Urban Visual | p. 181 |
| 11 Employee Entrances and Emergency Exits: Exposing the Invisible Imagery of Consumption | p. 197 |
| 12 Rain in the City | p. 217 |
| Index | p. 237 |
