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This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the(...)
Drive : journeys through film, cities and landscapes
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This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the avant-garde. Drive is about dynamic journeys, experiences and speeds, rooted in specific places and roads, and expanded into the realm of cinema, art and video games. It moves from the gentle deserts of The Grapes of Wrath to the adventurous city streets of The Italian Job, from the aesthetic delights of Rain Man and Traffic to the existential musings of Two-Lane Blacktop, Thelma and Louise and Vanishing Point, from the contemplative freeway pleasures of Lift to the Scaffold, Radio On and London Orbital to the hallucinatory high-speed dangers of Crash, Bullitt, Death Proof and C’était un Rendezvous. It shows how various kinds of driving – with different speeds, cars, attitudes, roads and cities – provide experiences and values that we ignore at our peril.
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Covering an array of films that ranges from early classics to contemporary star vehicles, this volume features detailed analyses of forty-six key scenes from productions shot on location across the city, as well as spotlight essays in which contributors with expertise in German studies, urban history, and film studies focus on issues central to understanding Berlin(...)
World film locations : Berlin
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Covering an array of films that ranges from early classics to contemporary star vehicles, this volume features detailed analyses of forty-six key scenes from productions shot on location across the city, as well as spotlight essays in which contributors with expertise in German studies, urban history, and film studies focus on issues central to understanding Berlin cinema. Among the topics discussed are the roles of rubble, construction sites, and music in films set and shot in Berlin, as well as key personalities, including Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl. With the help of full-color illustrations that include film stills and contemporary location shots, World Film Locations: Berlin cinematically maps the city’s long twentieth century, taking readers behind the scenes and shedding new light on the connections between many favorite and possibly soon to be favorite films.
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The contributors to this volume trace cinema in Iceland from the 1979 establishment of the Icelandic Film Fund — before which the country’s film industry barely existed — through today. In a series of scene reviews, they show how rapidly the city has changed over the past thirty years. In thematic spotlight articles, they go on to explore such topics as the relationship(...)
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World film locations : Reykjavik
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The contributors to this volume trace cinema in Iceland from the 1979 establishment of the Icelandic Film Fund — before which the country’s film industry barely existed — through today. In a series of scene reviews, they show how rapidly the city has changed over the past thirty years. In thematic spotlight articles, they go on to explore such topics as the relationship between Iceland and its capital city; youth culture and night life; the relationship between film and the local music community; cinematic representations of Scandinavian crime; and filmmakers’ response to the 2008 banking crisis. Together, these varied contributions show how films shot in Reykjavík have been shaped both by Iceland’s remoteness from the rest of the world and by Icelandic filmmakers’ sense that the city remains forever on the brink of desolate and harsh wilderness.
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'Spots in Shots' explores a selection of little-known but fascinating short films made in Europe and the US between 1990 and 2017 that tell stories about architecture and urban development. Based on interviews with the filmmakers, the book asks how cinema can stir public interest in the oeuvres of architects.
Spots in shots: narrating the built environment in short film
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'Spots in Shots' explores a selection of little-known but fascinating short films made in Europe and the US between 1990 and 2017 that tell stories about architecture and urban development. Based on interviews with the filmmakers, the book asks how cinema can stir public interest in the oeuvres of architects.
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Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image is of broad concern to historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations which no longer presuppose a fixed viewer, urban space becomes envisioned and planned through "fly throughs," and(...)
The moving eye: film, television, architecture, visual art, and the modern
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Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image is of broad concern to historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations which no longer presuppose a fixed viewer, urban space becomes envisioned and planned through "fly throughs," and technologies such as GPS add data to the experience of travel, moving images have captured the attention of geographers and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Their practice of "mobility studies" is remaking how we understand a contemporary world in relentless motion. Media theorist and historian Anne Friedberg (1952-2009) was among the first practitioners of visual studies to theorize the experience of vision in motion. Her books have become key points of reference in the discussion of the windows that frame images and the viewers in motion who perceive them. Although widely influential beyond her own discipline, Friedberg's work has never been the subject of an extended study. "The Moving Eye" gathers together essays by renowned thinkers in media studies, art history, architecture, and museum studies to consider the rich implications of her work for understanding film and video, new media, visual art, architecture, exhibition design, urban space, and virtual reality.
The intervals of cinema
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The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing its images and its philosophy; and it rejects theatre, while also fulfilling theatre’s dream.(...)
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The intervals of cinema
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The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing its images and its philosophy; and it rejects theatre, while also fulfilling theatre’s dream. Built on these contradictions, the cinema is the real, material space in which one feels moved by the spectacle of shadows. Thus for Rancière, the cinema is the always disappointed dream of a language of images.
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Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological approach, it describes how we, the viewers, can learn how to read(...)
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Film, architecture and spatial imagination
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Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological approach, it describes how we, the viewers, can learn how to read architecture and design in film in order to see the many inherent messages. Architecture’s representational capacity contributes to the plausibility or 'reality' possible in film. The book provides an ontological understanding that clarifies and stabilizes the reciprocity of the actual world and a filmic world of illusion and human imagination, thereby shedding light on both film and architecture.
Gravité sur Billy Wilder
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Cynique, Billy Wilder ? On a coutume de le dire. Et grossier, voire vulgaire. Son cinéma est lourd, certes, mais d'une lourdeur littérale. Auteur de quelques-unes des comédies parmi les plus drôles de l'histoire, émule de Lubitsch, il est, par excellence, le cinéaste de la gravité. La force du terrestre et la pesanteur sont au coeur de ses films. Les mouvements et les(...)
Gravité sur Billy Wilder
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Cynique, Billy Wilder ? On a coutume de le dire. Et grossier, voire vulgaire. Son cinéma est lourd, certes, mais d'une lourdeur littérale. Auteur de quelques-unes des comédies parmi les plus drôles de l'histoire, émule de Lubitsch, il est, par excellence, le cinéaste de la gravité. La force du terrestre et la pesanteur sont au coeur de ses films. Les mouvements et les discours, le rire et la politique, tout est affaire de poids dans ''Certains l'aiment chaud,'' dans ''Sunset Boulevard'' comme dans ''Un, deux, trois.'' Wilder est moins un satiriste, en vérité, qu'un historien. Tantôt il analyse les origines et les évolutions de la société américaine, tantôt il décrit une Allemagne marquée par le nazisme. Aller de la gravité matérielle à la gravité historique est dès lors la trajectoire de ce livre, qui propose une vision inédite d'une oeuvre fondamentale.
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Une analyse des conséquences de l'acte de filmer dans la rue sur le cinéma. La Nouvelle Vague pose un regard inédit sur la ville dans laquelle la rue devient un acteur, une trame narrative ou un contexte politique. A travers l'étude de courts-métrages de J. Eustache, F. Truffaut ou encore de J.-L. Godard, l'auteur propose des définitions, des références et des anecdotes(...)
Désirs de rues : l'urbain, une matrice pour un nouveau cinéma
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Une analyse des conséquences de l'acte de filmer dans la rue sur le cinéma. La Nouvelle Vague pose un regard inédit sur la ville dans laquelle la rue devient un acteur, une trame narrative ou un contexte politique. A travers l'étude de courts-métrages de J. Eustache, F. Truffaut ou encore de J.-L. Godard, l'auteur propose des définitions, des références et des anecdotes mêlant théorie et pratique.
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Les chefs opérateurs traduisent le récit en images. Ils contrôlent le cadre et les mouvements de caméra. Ils inventent ou domestiquent la lumière et s’en servent moins comme un pinceau que comme un stylo : c’est l’étymologie même du mot « photographie ». Cet ouvrage explore les secrets d’une profession et révèle la diversité des parcours. Il évoque l’alchimie des(...)
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Écrire par l'image : directeurs et directrices de la photo
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Les chefs opérateurs traduisent le récit en images. Ils contrôlent le cadre et les mouvements de caméra. Ils inventent ou domestiquent la lumière et s’en servent moins comme un pinceau que comme un stylo : c’est l’étymologie même du mot « photographie ». Cet ouvrage explore les secrets d’une profession et révèle la diversité des parcours. Il évoque l’alchimie des collaborations derrière la beauté et la cohérence des images en mouvement qui définissent le cinéma.