Urban Cinematics (Book)
Understanding Urban Phenomena through the Moving Image
Edition
François Penz is an architect and a teacher in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge.
Andong Lu is a research associate at the University of Cambridge.
Introduction – François Penz and Andong Lu
Part I: City symphonies: Montaged urban cinematic landscapes
Chapter 1: Ciné-City strolls: Imagery, form, language and meaning of the city film – Helmut Weihsmann
Chapter 2: I am here, or, the art of getting lost: Patrick Keiller and the new city symphony – Patrik Sjöberg
Chapter 3: Get out of the car: A commentary – Thom Andersen
Part II: Cinematic urban archaeology
Chapter 4: Aids to objectivity? Photography, film and the new ‘science’ of urbanism – Nicholas Bullock
Chapter 5: Which role for the cinema in a working-class city: The case of Saint-Etienne – Roger Odin
Chapter 6: A film of two cities: Sean Connery’s Edinburgh – Murray Grigor
Chapter 7: Film as re-imaging the modern space – Mark Lewis
Part III: Geographies of the urban cinematic landscape
Chapter 8: Mobility and global complexity in the work of Van der Keuken – Hing Tsang
Chapter 9: From maps of ‘progress’ to crime maps (and back again?): The plasticity of the aerial shot in Mexican urban film – Celia Dunne
Chapter 10: Night on Earth, urban wayfinding and everyday life – Andrew Otway
Part IV: The cinematic in the urban
Chapter 11: Sleepwalking from New York to Miami – Alison Butler
Chapter 12: Film in our midst: City as cinematic archive – Rachel Moore
Chapter 13: Parkour vision – Layla Curtis
Part V: Cinematic urban design practice
Chapter 14: Urban anagram: A bio-political reflection on cinema and city life – Maria Hellström Reimer
Chapter 15: Reconsidering cinematic mapping: Halfway between collected subjectivity and projective mapping – Marc Boumeester
Chapter 16: Mapping urban space: Moving image as a research tool – Wowo Ding
Chapter 17: The moving image of the city: Expressive space/inhabitation/narrativity: Intensive studio workshop on 'Continuity of Action in Space' – Maureen Thomas