[Commlist] New book: Anna Luise Kiss: The Cinematic Streetscape in Potsdam. Palimpsest—Cultural Arena—Performative Space

We’re pleased to announce a recent release published by Avinus: The 
Cinematic Streetscape in Potsdam. Palimpsest—Cultural Arena—Performative 
Space by Anna Luise Kiss. With Contributions by Johann Pibert. Open Access

In the city of film Potsdam, there are 42 streets named after 
filmmakers. This book tells the story of Potsdam’s cinematic streetscape 
together with a short biography of each of the film personalities involved.

The cinematic streetscape is quantitatively analyzed and interpreted as 
a palimpsest, as a cultural arena, and as a performative space. Older, 
overlooked, and forgotten layers of the streetscape come to light, and 
it is outlined how the practice of street naming has changed over the 
decades. Memory–political disputes about street names in Potsdam are 
reconstructed. The results of the book show how the cinematic 
streetscape, together with other cinematic elements and due to different 
echo effects, creates a filmic-induced urban space, characterized by 
overwriting, disputes over questions of representation, and processes of 
interaction with the cinematic streetscape.

For the first time in film studies, a model of a circular film-related 
spatial practice constituting cities of film is presented, enabling a 
new understanding of them as assemblages.

Furthermore, this book relates city-centered film studies with critical 
street-name studies and combines citizen research, film history—i.e., 
humanities research—, social science methods, a scientific–artistic 
writing concept, and a revisionist perspective. Numerous illustrations 
and district maps enable identification of the cinematic streets, while 
graphics make the often complex scientific modeling comprehensible.   A 
hyperlink structure links the main text with the short biographies of 
the filmmakers, allowing access to linked institutions and sources and 
producing a film-studies publication that also functions as an 
experimental public-interest publication.

978-3-86938-171-8 (epublication)

You can download the Open Access publication here:

https://produkte.avinus.de/produkt/kiss-the-cinematic-streetscape-in-potsdam-pdf 
<https://produkte.avinus.de/produkt/kiss-the-cinematic-streetscape-in-potsdam-pdf>

For more information, contact Anna Luise Kiss at

(a.kiss /at/ hfs-berlin.de) <mailto:a.kiss%40hfs-berlin.de>

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