This book explores how examples of famous architecture have circulated throughout cinema history across diverse genres. It will appeal to Film Studies, Media Studies, and Architecture and Architectural History, Media and Cultural Studies, History, Popular Culture, and Urban Geography.
This book explores how examples of famous architecture have circulated throughout cinema history across diverse genres. It will appeal to Film Studies, Media Studies, and Architecture and Architectural History, Media and Cultural Studies, History, Popular Culture, and Urban Geography.
Merrill Schleier is Professor Emeritus of Art and Architectural History and Cinema Studies at the University of the Pacific, USA, specializing in the relationship of urbanism, identity, and cinema. Paul Newland is Professor of Film and Architecture at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has published widely on representations of cities, landscapes, and architecture in literature and film.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: what is cinematic starchitecture? Part 1: Starchitects and Cinema 1. Gaudí: Starchitecture, Iconicity, and Barcelona 2. The Iconicity of Architectural Decay in Detroit: The Posthumous Cinematic Re-mediation of Albert Kahn 3. Traces of a Proto-Starchitect: Erich Mendelsohn's Architecture on Screen Part 2: Iconic Starchitecture in Cinema 4. Plaza and Fortress: Screening Lincoln Center's Ambiguous Iconicity 5. La La Land's (2016) Griffith Observatory: Through the Nostalgic Lens of Rebel Without a Cause and the Studio-Era Musical Part 3: Lofty Towers and Vertical Views 6. Tokyo Tower on Screen 7. The Nearest Thing to Heaven: the Empire State Building as romantic icon 8. Millennial Global Starchitecture in the City of London and its Cinematic "Other" in Rocks Part 4: Cinematic Starchitecture and Genre 9. Hong Kong Starchitecture and Action-Sci Fi Cinema 10. The Icon and the Grid: North by Northwest, the United Nations Building , and the Thriller Genre's Media-Architecture Complex 11. Building Dystopia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin County Civic Center in THX 1138 (1971) and Gattaca (1997) Part 5: Architectural Typologies and Styles in Cinema 12. "Concrete Stardom": Brutalism's Cinematic Iconicity and the Spatial Imaginaries of London 13. Pensive Spectacles: On Museal Gazes in Cinematic Starchitecture 14. Poetic Referentiality: The Ocean Liner as Film Star Index
Introduction: what is cinematic starchitecture? Part 1: Starchitects and Cinema 1. Gaudí: Starchitecture, Iconicity, and Barcelona 2. The Iconicity of Architectural Decay in Detroit: The Posthumous Cinematic Re-mediation of Albert Kahn 3. Traces of a Proto-Starchitect: Erich Mendelsohn's Architecture on Screen Part 2: Iconic Starchitecture in Cinema 4. Plaza and Fortress: Screening Lincoln Center's Ambiguous Iconicity 5. La La Land's (2016) Griffith Observatory: Through the Nostalgic Lens of Rebel Without a Cause and the Studio-Era Musical Part 3: Lofty Towers and Vertical Views 6. Tokyo Tower on Screen 7. The Nearest Thing to Heaven: the Empire State Building as romantic icon 8. Millennial Global Starchitecture in the City of London and its Cinematic "Other" in Rocks Part 4: Cinematic Starchitecture and Genre 9. Hong Kong Starchitecture and Action-Sci Fi Cinema 10. The Icon and the Grid: North by Northwest, the United Nations Building , and the Thriller Genre's Media-Architecture Complex 11. Building Dystopia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin County Civic Center in THX 1138 (1971) and Gattaca (1997) Part 5: Architectural Typologies and Styles in Cinema 12. "Concrete Stardom": Brutalism's Cinematic Iconicity and the Spatial Imaginaries of London 13. Pensive Spectacles: On Museal Gazes in Cinematic Starchitecture 14. Poetic Referentiality: The Ocean Liner as Film Star Index
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