Urban Cinematics

François Penz is an architect and a teacher in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge.Andong Lu is a research associate at the University of Cambridge.

• Introduction – François Penz and Andong LuPart I: City symphonies: Montaged urban cinematic landscapesChapter 1: Ciné-City strolls: Imagery, form, language and meaning of the city film – Helmut WeihsmannChapter 2: I am here, or, the art of getting lost: Patrick Keiller and the new city symphony – Patrik SjöbergChapter 3: Get out of the car: A commentary – Thom AndersenPart II: Cinematic urban archaeologyChapter 4: Aids to objectivity? Photography, film and the new ‘science’ of urbanism – Nicholas BullockChapter 5: Which role for the cinema in a working-class city: The case of Saint-Etienne – Roger OdinChapter 6: A film of two cities: Sean Connery’s Edinburgh – Murray GrigorChapter 7: Film as re-imaging the modern space – Mark LewisPart III: Geographies of the urban cinematic landscapeChapter 8: Mobility and global complexity in the work of Van der Keuken – Hing TsangChapter 9: From maps of ‘progress’ to crime maps (and back again?): The plasticity of the aerial shot in Mexican urban film – Celia DunneChapter 10: Night on Earth, urban wayfinding and everyday life – Andrew OtwayPart IV: The cinematic in the urbanChapter 11: Sleepwalking from New York to Miami – Alison ButlerChapter 12: Film in our midst: City as cinematic archive – Rachel MooreChapter 13: Parkour vision – Layla CurtisPart V: Cinematic urban design practiceChapter 14: Urban anagram: A bio-political reflection on cinema and city life – Maria Hellström ReimerChapter 15: Reconsidering cinematic mapping: Halfway between collected subjectivity and projective mapping – Marc BoumeesterChapter 16: Mapping urban space: Moving image as a research tool – Wowo DingChapter 17: The moving image of the city: Expressive space/inhabitation/narrativity: Intensive studio workshop on 'Continuity of Action in Space' – Maureen Thomas