Documenting Cityscapes: Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film

by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Book Overview

While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting Cityscapes explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s, paying particular attention to three aesthetic tendencies: documentary landscaping, urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231174535
• ISBN13: 9780231174534
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"