Cinematic Urban Geographies

by François Penz (editor), Richard Koeck (Editor)

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to the literature in the growing field of cartographic cinema and urban cinematics, by charting the many trajectories and points of contact between film and its topographical context. Under the influence of new technologies, the opening and the availability of previously unexplored archives but also the contribution of new scholars with novel approaches in addition to new work by experienced academics, Cinematic Urban Geographies demonstrates how we can reread the cinematic past with a view to construct the urban present and anticipate its future. 

498 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 12, 2017

About the author

Biography:

Research

I study the history of the relationship between Cinema and Architecture in order to inform contemporary digital moving practice with a view to propose new modes of communication in architectural and urban issues.

Teaching

I currently supervise five PhD students working in the field of digitality, design and communications, architecture and the moving image. I teach an undergraduate lecture course in 1st, 2nd and 3rd year on The Culture of Images. I also give a series of seminars for the MAUS and MAUD MPhil courses on Urban Cinematics.

I am one of the core teachers in the University interdisciplinary MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures [based in MML].

Administration

I am the Director of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies

Research Interests

http://www.expressivespace.org/

My latest film involvement was about reconstructing a lost church in Florence, part of the Visions of Paradise exhibition at the National Gallery [showing until end of March 2016]: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/vis...