[ecrea] New Book: Film, Mobility and Urban Space

*FILM, MOBILITY AND URBAN SPACE*
*a Cinematic Geography of Liverpool*
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Les Roberts, University of Liverpool

http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=4047

/'This is the most interesting film book I have read in years... 
consistently interesting, theoretically smart, and a pleasure to read.' 
/Ben Highmore, University of Sussex.
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Re-evaluating the significance of location in contemporary film practice 
and urban cultural theory, /Film, Mobility and Urban Space/ explores the 
role of moving images in representations and perceptions of everyday 
urban landscapes. The arguments put forward in the book are based on a 
case study of Liverpool in the north west of England and draw from a 
unique spatial database of over 1700 archive films of the city from 1897 
to the present day. Theoretically wide-ranging in scope, Les Roberts's 
study combines critical spatial analysis, archival research and 
qualitative methods to navigate a city's cinematic geographies as mapped 
across a broad spectrum of film genres, including amateur film, 
travelogues, newsreels, promotional films, documentaries and features. 
As the second most filmed city in the UK  Liverpool boasts a rich 
industrial, architectural and maritime heritage that has positioned the 
city at the forefront of current debates on regeneration, visuality and 
cultural memory. The tension between the city as spectacle and the city 
as archive, and the contradictions that underpin the growing 
'cinematization' of postmodern urban space are at the core of the 
arguments developed throughout the book.

*CHAPTERS*
1. Cinematic Geography: Mobilizing the Archive City
2. An Incriminated Medium? The City as Urban Spectacle
3. Cityscapes: Panoramas and the Mobile Gaze
4. City Limits: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity
5. Movie-mapping: Cinematographic Tourism and Place-marketing
6. World in One City: Travel, Globalization and Placeless Space
7. Cinematic Cartography: Mapping the Archive City

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Dr Les Roberts
Research Associate
Institute of Popular Music
School of Music
University of Liverpool
80-82 Bedford Street South
Liverpool
L69 7WW
Tel: 0151 794 3102

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