Documenting Cityscapes: Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film

✍ Scribed by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Place, Images, and Meanings
1. On City and Cinema
2. Documentary Film at the Turn of the Century
Part 1. Landscaping
3. Observational Landscaping
4. Psychogeographical Landscaping
5. Autobiographical Landscaping
Part 2. Urban Self-Portraits
6. Self-Portrait as Socio-Political Documentary
7. Self-Portrait as Essay Film
8. Self-Portrait as Self-Fiction
Part 3. Metafilmic Strategies
9. Inside Hollywood Film
Conclusion: Cinema as Agent of Urban Change
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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