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In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. "Projected cities" looks with particular focus at the cinema of Europe and Japan, two closely linked cinematic cultures which have been foremost in the use of urban imagery, to reveal elements of culture, architecture and history. By(...)
novembre 2002, London
Projected cities: cinema and urban space
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In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. "Projected cities" looks with particular focus at the cinema of Europe and Japan, two closely linked cinematic cultures which have been foremost in the use of urban imagery, to reveal elements of culture, architecture and history. By examining this imagery, especially at moments of turmoil and experimentation, the author reveals how cinema has used images of cities to influence our perception of everything from history to the human body, and how cinematic images of cities have been fundamental to the ways in which the city has been imagined, formulated and remembered. The book goes on to assess the impact of media culture on the status of film and cinema spaces, and concludes by considering digital renderings of the modern city.
Jonas Mekas: Images are real
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Through a wide selection of works from the 1960s to the late 2010s, this catalogue aims to read the Lithuanian filmmaker's work as a Dantesque journey leading to happiness, from the infernos of history, through a daily exercise in filmmaking. The title is a quote taken from the film ''Out-takes From the Life of a Happy Man'', in which the artist's voice-over reflects to(...)
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Jonas Mekas: Images are real
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Through a wide selection of works from the 1960s to the late 2010s, this catalogue aims to read the Lithuanian filmmaker's work as a Dantesque journey leading to happiness, from the infernos of history, through a daily exercise in filmmaking. The title is a quote taken from the film ''Out-takes From the Life of a Happy Man'', in which the artist's voice-over reflects to himself, ''Memories are past, but images are here, and images are real!'' Completing the volume are a collection of texts by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Hollis Melton, P. Adams Sitney, Ieva Jasinskaite, and Philipp Scheid.
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Although a few among us are intrepid architectural tourists, visiting buildings and landscapes our cameras at the ready, most of us experience architecture through the windshield of a moving vehicle, the architectural experience reduced to a blurry and momentary drive-by. And the rest of our architectural "tourism" is through the images of cameras, movies, and television(...)
mai 2004, New York
Zoomscape : architecture and motion in media
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Although a few among us are intrepid architectural tourists, visiting buildings and landscapes our cameras at the ready, most of us experience architecture through the windshield of a moving vehicle, the architectural experience reduced to a blurry and momentary drive-by. And the rest of our architectural "tourism" is through the images of cameras, movies, and television programs—that is, through the lens of another's eye. Architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer calls this new mediated architectural experience the "zoomscape." In this thought-provoking book, he argues that the perception of architecture has been fundamentally altered by the technologies of transportation and the camera - we now look at buildings, neighborhoods, cities, and even entire continents as we ride in trains, cars, and planes, and/or as we view photographs, movies, and television. "Zoomscape" shows how we now perceive buildings and places at high speeds, across great distances, through edited and multiple reproductions. Nowadays, our views of the architectural landscape are modulated by the accelerator pedal and the remote control, by studio production techniques and airplane flight paths. Using examples from high art and popular culture - from the novels of Don DeLillo to the opening credits of "The Sopranos" - Mitchell Schwarzer shows that the zoomscape has brought about unprecedented and often marvelous new ways of perceiving the built environment.
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Dark Places" explores the dim, claustrophobic interiors of haunted houses in horror movies, as well as the cinema auditorium itself, and their relation to the 'dark places' of the human pysche. Barry Curtis looks at the long, blood-soaked history of horror films: their fascination with re-animating the dead; the special effects, both sophisticated and crude, which have(...)
Dark places: the haunted house in film
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Dark Places" explores the dim, claustrophobic interiors of haunted houses in horror movies, as well as the cinema auditorium itself, and their relation to the 'dark places' of the human pysche. Barry Curtis looks at the long, blood-soaked history of horror films: their fascination with re-animating the dead; the special effects, both sophisticated and crude, which have been contrived in order to bring spirits into the realm of the living; the structures, projections and architecture of horror movie sets; and the complex metaphorical life of 'ghosts' as harbingers of loss, amnesia, injustice and vengeance. A wide range of films is also discussed in which the 'haunted house' is reworked in new scenarios - the road, the apartment, the motel, the spaceship - and visually linked to the troubling archetypes of Gothic fictions. Barry Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University, Fellow of the London Consortium, and Visiting Tutor at the Royal College of Art. He has written widely on film, architecture, art and visual culture for magazines, newspapers and journals.
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There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley(...)
When movies were theater: architecture, exhibition, and the evolution of American film
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There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. William Paul matches distinct architectural forms to movie styles, showing how cinema's roots in theater influenced business practices, exhibition strategies, and film technologies.
The Chaplin machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the international Communist avant-garde, 1917-1937
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"The Chaplin Machine" reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
The Chaplin machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the international Communist avant-garde, 1917-1937
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"The Chaplin Machine" reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
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Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema’s tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier(...)
janvier 2009, Minneapolis, London
Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film
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Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema’s tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier establishes and explains the impact of actual skyscrapers on America’s ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies.
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Cet essai explore une facette de Hans Hartung (1904-1989) d'apparence improbable : les liens de ce géant de la peinture abstraite avec le cinéma. Il n'existe aucun film de Hartung, ni d'inclination réelle de sa part pour le septième art. Mais une enquête au cœur d'innombrables archives jusqu'alors inédites révèle des réseaux insoupçonnés : ce sont, entre autres, des(...)
Hartung Nouvelle Vague : De Resnais vers Rohmer
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Cet essai explore une facette de Hans Hartung (1904-1989) d'apparence improbable : les liens de ce géant de la peinture abstraite avec le cinéma. Il n'existe aucun film de Hartung, ni d'inclination réelle de sa part pour le septième art. Mais une enquête au cœur d'innombrables archives jusqu'alors inédites révèle des réseaux insoupçonnés : ce sont, entre autres, des réalisateurs comme Alain Resnais, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, plus récemment Larry Clark, qui ont admiré l'homme et sa peinture. Sa vie de héros antinazi, ex-légionnaire amputé au genou, traversé d'expériences cauchemardesques, mais déterminé à peindre ses « taches », passionnait. Qu'il ait été parodié, glorifié dans des décors de film, ou qu'il ait nourri des rôles campés par Anthony Perkins comme Maurice Ronet, Hartung est un fascinant point aveugle du cinéma.
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Le Cinéma aujourd'hui présente un panorama du cinéma international et des films qui se sont imposés sur nos écrans au cours des trente dernières années. L'auteur s'intéresse tout d'abord au nouvel Hollywood : ses réalisateurs et ses genres, et cette capacité à réagir aux changements qui lui a permis de conserver sa position dominante. Les films hollywoodiens sont vus par(...)
Le cinéma aujourd'hui
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Le Cinéma aujourd'hui présente un panorama du cinéma international et des films qui se sont imposés sur nos écrans au cours des trente dernières années. L'auteur s'intéresse tout d'abord au nouvel Hollywood : ses réalisateurs et ses genres, et cette capacité à réagir aux changements qui lui a permis de conserver sa position dominante. Les films hollywoodiens sont vus par des millions de spectateurs de tous pays, pas seulement pour leur qualité de production, mais aussi parce qu'ils touchent les rêves et l'imagination de chacun. L'auteur se tourne ensuite vers les autres lieux de production, l'Europe de l'Ouest et de l'Est, l'Afrique du Nord et l'Amérique latine, les pays d'Océanie et l'industrie indienne du cinéma, appelée Bollywood. Des réalisateurs aussi influents que Steven Spielberg, Chen Kaige ou Jean-Luc Godard côtoient une nouvelle génération d'artistes comme Paul Thomas Anderson, Lukas Moodysson et Samira Makhmalbaf.
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Broadway avenue in downtown Los Angeles holds an extraordinary collection of twelve once-luxurious and now abandoned film-palaces, built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide, such a concentration of cinemas would have been demolished long ago - here however the buildings have survived the end of film-projection intact, some of their interiors ruined and gutted,(...)
Abandoned images: film and film's end
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Broadway avenue in downtown Los Angeles holds an extraordinary collection of twelve once-luxurious and now abandoned film-palaces, built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide, such a concentration of cinemas would have been demolished long ago - here however the buildings have survived the end of film-projection intact, some of their interiors ruined and gutted, others transformed and re-used as churches, nightclubs and storage spaces. Stephen Barber begins with an exploration of these remarkable derelicts, and broadens to ask questions about the abandonment of film itself.