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Screening Spaces Series Editor Pamela Robertson Wojcik Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Screening Spaces is a series dedicated to showcasing interdisciplinary books that explore the multiple and various intersections of space, place, andscreen cultures. More information aboutthisseries at http://www.springer.com/series/14491 FrançoisPenz(cid:129)RichardKoeck Editors Cinematic Urban Geographies Editors FrançoisPenz RichardKoeck DepartmentofArchitecture SchoolofArchitecture UniversityofCambridge UniversityofLiverpool Cambridge,UnitedKingdom Liverpool,UnitedKingdom ScreeningSpaces ISBN978-1-137-46830-7 ISBN978-1-137-46084-4(eBook) DOI10.1057/978-1-137-46084-4 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2017940414 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s)2017 This work is subject to copyright. 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To Peter vonBagh (1943–2014) C ONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 FrançoisPenz andRichardKoeck PartI CartographicCinema: Maps inFilms andMaps asMental Cinema 2 The Cinema in the Map–The Caseof Braun and Hogenberg’s CivitatesOrbis Terrarum 23 FrançoisPenz 3 Cinematic Cartographiesof UrbanSpace and the Descriptive Spectacle of AerialViews(1898–1948) 47 TeresaCastro 4 ChartingtheCriminal:MapsasDevicesofOrientationand Control in Fritz Lang’sM (1931)andFrancescoRosi’s Le mani sulla città (1963) 65 HenryKeazor PartII ‘Movie Centric’ Mapof Cities–Map-Reading and Ciné-Tourism vii viii CONTENTS 5 ‘Merely Local’: Film andthe Depictionof Place,Especially in LocalDocumentary 81 IanChristie 6 The Cine-Tourist’sMap ofNew Wave Paris 95 Roland-FrançoisLack 7 Set-Jetting, FilmPilgrimage andThe ThirdMan 113 Frederick Baker PartIII Films asSites of Memories– Lieuxde Mémoires 8 The Cinematic Shtetlasa Siteof Postmemory 137 MaurizioCinquegrani 9 ‘Where Isthe Dust ThatHas Not Been Alive?’: Screening the Vanished Polisin Stirbitch: An Imaginary 155 MichaelHrebeniak 10 Melancholy Urbanism:DistantHorizons andthe Presentation of Place 175 RichardCoyne PartIV CinematicTopographiesWithin Their SocialandCultural Practices 11 Cinematic UrbanArchaeology:The Battersea Case 191 FrançoisPenz, Aileen ReidandMaureenThomas 12 The Cinematic andthe TelevisualCity:SouthLondon Revisited 223 CharlotteBrunsdon CONTENTS ix 13 ‘Los Angeles andHollywoodin FilmandFrench Theory: Agnès Varda’s LionsLove…andLies (1969) andEdgar Morin’sJournal deCalifornie (1970)’ 245 MarkShiel PartV Database Cinema: Visualising theCinematic Urban Archaeology andGeo-Locating Moviesin the City 14 UrbanCinematicPalimpsests:MovingImageDatabasesfor the City 271 StavrosAlifragkisandGiorgosPapakonstantinou 15 Geographies of the MovingImage:Transforming Cinematic Representation into GeographicInformation 295 RichardKoeckandMathew Flintham 16 GhostCinemaApp:TemporalUbiquityandtheCondition of Beingin Everytime 313 ChrisSpeed,MaureenThomas andChrisBarker Index 337 L C IST OF ONTRIBUTORS Stavros Alifragkis holds a diploma in architecture from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002). He attended MPhil courses at the University of Cambridge (2003) and the National Technical University of Athens (2004). He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2010).Hisdoctoralthesisfocusesonthecinematicreconstructionofthe SocialistcityinVertov’scinema.Stavroshastaughtundergraduatecourses on the filmic representation of architecture and the city, architectural drawing and history of art and architecture. He has contributed to con- ferences with papers on cinematic cities and various film festivals with linear andinteractivemoving image projects. Frederick Baker is a film scholar, visual archaeologist and film director. HisfeatureanddocumentaryfilmsfortheBBCandArtehavewonawards worldwide and have also been shown at Cannes. Active as an arts-based researcher, his work on projection mapping and expanded cinema, has been published in the ‘Art of Projectionism’ (Czernin Verlag 2007). His most recent work, ‘The Return of Harry Lime’ (2014) was the first film mapped onto the Bridge of Sighs, St John’s College. A specialist in Austrian Cinema, he has published extensively on Carol Reed’s classic ‘The Third Man’ and is the founder of Cambridge’s annual international research symposium ‘Picturing Austrian Cinema’. Current research includes: a film essay on 120 years of Austrian film, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arthur Schnitzler’s relationship to cinema and the role of film in recent political protest movements. In the field of the digital humanities his current EU-funded research concerns the proto-cinema of prehistoric xi
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