Skateboard Video: Archiving the City from Below

by Duncan McDuie-Ra

Book Overview

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here 'below' has a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, capture, and consume the city--from the ground up. Since taking to the streets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811657017
• ISBN13: 9789811657016
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"