Filming the City

Edward M. Clift is president of Brooks Institute in Ventura, California.Mirko Guaralda is a senior lecturer in architecture at the Queensland University of Technology. Ari Mattes is a lecturer in media studies at the University of Notre Dame, Australia.Graham Cairns is a visiting scholar in architecture and design at both Florida State University and Ravensbourne, UK.

• ForwardGraham Cairns IntroductionEdward M. Clift Section One: Film as Spatial TheoryVarious Chapter One: Unlawful entry: The imbrication of suburban space and police repression in Jonathan Kaplan's Los AngelesAri Mattes Chapter Two: Blockbuster realism: Mapping Gotham in the Dark Knight filmsJarrad Cogle Chapter Three: (Re-) Framing urbanity: Contestation, the moving image and the right to the cityJoern W. Langhorst Chapter Four: Architects of Playtime: Cities as social media in the work of Jaques TatiLisa Landrum Chapter Five: Film and the urban nightmare: Pier Vittorio Aureli's cityarchipelagos as urbanities woven from media images in Pete Travis's Dredd and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight RisesMaciej Stasiowski Section Two: Film as Spatial Research and ExperimentVarious Chapter Six: Hollywood menace: Los Angeles and mid-century modern dens of viceGabriel Solomons Chapter Seven: A second life for a second city: Tradition and modernity in Guadalajara in the SummerCarmen Elisa Gómez-Gomez Chapter Eight: The cinematic image as an architectural conductor: A mediated hint from future architectureAysegül Akçay Kavakoglu Chapter Nine: Berlin on film: A mediated and reconstructed cityGraham Cairns Section Three: Film as Spatial PracticeVarious Chapter Ten: The grey area between reality and representation: The practices of architects and film-makersGemma Barton Chapter Eleven: Electric Signs revisitedAlice Arnold Chapter Twelve: Public and urban humanities: Beyond the ideal cityLuisa Bravo Chapter Thirteen: The mediating city: Towards a mise-en-scéne for interaction onlineBenjamin Koslowski EpilogueAri Mattes and Mirko Guaralda