[Commlist] New Book: Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life

Intellect is pleased to announce that */Narrating the City: Mediated 
Representations of Architecture/,/Urban Forms and Social Life/ 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/narrating-the-city>*, edited by Ayşegül 
Akçay Kavakoğlu, Türkan Nihan Hacıömeroğlu and Lisa Landrum, is now 
available in ebook and hardback.

Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them 
in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital 
image-based technologies, the contributions explore the expanding range 
of ‘mediated’ narratives of contemporary architecture and urban culture 
from both a media and a sociological standpoint. Each chapter presents 
an interesting critical approach to the diversity of topics with clear 
explanation of the contextual framework and methodology, and a 
consistent depth of analysis.

In the three sections of the book, authors underline the continual role 
of film and media in creating moving image narratives of the city, 
identifying how it creates cinematic – and ever more frequently digital 
– topographies of contemporary urban culture and architecture, 
re-presenting familiar cities, modes of seeing, cultures and social 
questions in unfamiliar ways. This filmic emphasis is placed into 
dialogue with a more diverse range of related visual media, which 
illustrates the overlaps between them and reveals how moving image 
technologies create unique visual topographies of contemporary urban 
culture and architecture.

In making this shift from the filmic to the new age of digital image 
making and alternative modes of image consumption, the book not only 
reveals new techniques of representation, mediation and the augmentation 
of sensorial reality for city dwellers; its emphasis on ‘narrative’ 
offers insights into critical societal issues. These include cultural 
identity, diversity, memory and spatial politics, as they are both 
informed by and represented in various media. The focus for the book is 
on how films can produce mediation of urban life and culture by 
connecting the notions of identity, diversity and memory. Both the 
subject and the approach are gaining in popularity in recent years. This 
book's main feature is its dual perspective, involving both practical 
and theoretical stances – and it is this approach that makes it a 
particularly relevant and original contribution.

/Narrating the City/ is the latest in Intellect's */Mediated Cities/* 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/mediated-cities> series.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*Foreword *– /François Penz/
*Introduction:* Narrative Topographies of City and Urban Culture in 
Moving Images in the Age of Digitalization – /Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu, 
T. Nihan Hacıömeroğlu and Lisa Landrum
/
*Part I: Identity in Mediated Realms
*
*1.* Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Awry – /Louis D’Arcy-Reed/
*2.* Materiality and the Maternal: Spatial Politics and Agency of the 
Cinematic Apartment in Japanese Horror Films – /Shana Sanusi/
*3. *Tehran Has No Soul! – /Tania Ahmadi/
*4.* The Unconscious and the City: A Neuropsychoanalytic Exploration of 
Cinematic Space – /Susannah Gent/
*5.* A Vision of Complexity: From Meaning and Form to Pattern and Code – 
/Loukia Tsafoulia and Severino Alfonso
/
*Part II: Narrated Diversity of Filmic Urban Culture
*
*6.* Architecture of Constructed Situation: Understanding the Perception 
of Urban Space through Media – /Katarina Andjelkovic/
*7.* Polyphonic Asia: Contemporary City Symphonies of Singapore and 
Seoul – /Simone Shu-Yeng Chung/
*8.* Cinema and the Walled City – /Gül Kaçmaz Erk/
*9. *Architectures of the Suspended Moment – /Jean Boyd/

*Part III: Narrated Memories of Mediated Urban Life
*
*10.* The City Is a Changing Medium: Imagining New York and Los Angeles 
in Doug Aitken’s Work – /Gracia Ramírez/
*11.* Loss in Space: Deconstructing Urban Rephotography – /Michael 
Schofield/
*12. *Filming Chinese Settlement in Malaysia: Cinematic Narrative and 
Urban Settings – /Wang Changsong/
*13.* Bringing People Together Now: Wong Kar-Wai and Hong Kong – 
/Kimberly Connerton/
*14.* Multimedia Architectures: Case Study – Herakleion, a History of a 
City – /Giorgos Papakonstantinou/

*Afterword: *Neo-formalism and the Architectural Lessons of Film – 
/Graham Cairns/
*Index*


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/narrating-the-city
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/narrating-the-city>


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