TY - BOOK ID - 22107927 TI - Documenting cityscapes PY - 2015 SN - 9780231174534 9780231174527 9780231850780 0231850786 0231174535 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Cities and towns in motion pictures KW - Nonfiction films KW - History and criticism. KW - Film KW - Iconography KW - Documentary films UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22107927 AB - While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting Cityscapes explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s, paying particular attention to three aesthetic tendencies: documentary landscaping, urban self-portraits, and metafilmic strategies. Through the formal analysis of fifteen works from six different countries, this volume investigates how the rise of subjectivity has helped to develop a kind of gaze that is closer to citizens than to the institutions and corporations responsible for recent major transformations. Documenting Cityscapes therefore reveals the extent to which cinema has become an agent of urban change, in which certain films not only challenge the most controversial policies of late capitalism but also are able to produce spatiality themselves. ER -