Detroit

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A City Imagined in Film

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Carmela Cucuzzella, Aristofanis Soulikias

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Detroit: A City Imagined in Film is a survey of prominent feature films depicting or referring to Detroit, and how they have captured and fed popular perceptions about the Motor City. Detroit, a magnifying glass, through which one sees an exaggerated portrait of America, has rendered itself to the eye of the cinematographic camera for over a century as background, stage and even character.Guided by Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space, the authors analyse an array of fiction films filmed and/or set in Detroit from 1928 until today and examine filmic practice as one that has perceived, conceived but also produced the city’s lived space. The book thus sheds light on how the imaginary around a city can shape or reinforce perceptions that affect it in return, making the reading informative on the tangible power of cinema, the cinematic nature of the city and ultimately exposing the common threads but also the variety of narratives that weave the story of Detroit.The book is for film lovers, students and enthusiasts of Film Studies, Architecture and Urban Studies, and all those who are interested in Detroit, its history, places, and culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-24
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBuilt Environment City Studies
Antal sidor130
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032278056

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Carmela Cucuzzella, Ph.D., is Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design and Full Professor at the School of Design, at the Université de Montréal. She is a member of the inter-university and interdisciplinary team of the Laboratoire d'étude de l'architecture potentielle (LEAP). Previously, she was a full professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University, founding co-director of the Next Generation Cities Institute (NGCI) and Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design, Ecology and Sustainability for the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE). Her research focuses on the spatial justice of urban form, ecological design and architecture as well a as the didactic phenomena of ecological art and design in the city as a means of raising awareness of various socio-ecological issues. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, in academic collective books, without mentioning books and collective editions. Aristofanis Soulikias is an architect, filmmaker, and writer, interested in capturing and expressing essential and often intangible qualities of urban built spaces. His animated films and installations deal with this quest and are produced in the under-camera stop motion technique that involves hand-made objects and silhouettes. He is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture of the Université de Montréal, pursuing an interdisciplinary research-creation study with the title: "Sensing the city: revealing urban realities and potentials through handmade film animation", which aims at examining the relationship between handmade film animation and the haptic city and how the practice of the handmade film can reveal sensory qualities of the built environment, informing thus designers but also ordinary citizens. His research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.