Urban Cinematics

Proposed presentations

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I. Montaged Urban Cinematic Landscapes

Thom Andersen (California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles)
Title TBC

Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen)
The Ghetto as City Symphony

Patrik Sjöberg (Karlstad University, Sweden)
I Am Here, or, The Art of Getting Lost: Patrick Keiller, and the ”New” City Symphony

Helmut Weihsmann (Vienna)
Ciné-City Strolls - ­ Imagery, Form, Language and Meaning of the City Film


II. Cinematic Urban Archaeology

Nicholas Bullock (University of Cambridge)
Title TBC

McLain Clutter (University of Michigan, USA)
Imaginary Apparatus: Film Production and Urban Planning in New York City 1966-1975

Janet Harbord and Rachel Moore (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Film in our Midst: City as Cinematic Archive

Marco Iuliano (University of Naples “Federico II”)
Celluloid cities: the impact of Istituto LUCE on the urban imaginary

Richard Koeck (Liverpool University)
Title TBC


III. Geographies of the Urban Cinematic Landscape

Alison Butler (University of Reading)
Sleepwalking from New York to Miami

Layla Curtis (London)
Title TBC

Murray Grigor (University of Edinburgh)
Title TBC

Hing Tsang (University of Surrey)
Direct Cinema and the global Dutch city in the work of Van der Keuken 


IV. Cinematic Mapping

Marc Boumeester (Delft University of Technology, Holland)
Cinematic mapping reviewed; transitioning to 'Collected Subjectivism' by transferring media typologies

Wowo Ding (Nanjing University)
Title TBC

Celia Dunne (University of Cambridge)
From Maps of Progress to Crime Maps (and Back Again?): The Plasticity of the Aerial Shot as Deployed in Mexican Urban Film

Andrew Otway (Lancaster University)
‘Night on Earth’, Urban Wayfinding and Everyday Life


V. Cinema as a Form of Spatial and Social Practice

Maria Hellström Reimer (Swedish Agricultural University)
Title TBC

Marie-Paule Macdonald (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Moving images as architectural and urban design tools

John David Rhodes (University of Sussex)
Italy Turns Around: Urban Metonymy as Historical Method

Shuai-Ping Ku (Nanhua University, Taiwan)
A One and a Two – The Filming of Modern and Postmodern Cityscapes

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