DOCUMENTING CITYSCAPES / URBAN CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY NON/FICTION FILM

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 aest hetic tendencies: documentary landscaping, urban self-portraits, and metafilmic strategies.Through the formal analysis of fifteen wo rks from s...[Read more]