[ecrea] Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 4.1&2

We are delighted to announce that the new, special issue of the Journal 
of Urban Cultural Studies 4.1&2 is now available.


For more information about this issue, please click here 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3352/> or email 
(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com) <mailto:(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com)>.


Articles within this issue include (partial list):


Giving visibility to urban change in Rio de Janeiro through digital 
audio-visual culture: A Brazilian webdocumentary project and its 
circulation 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24297/>

Authors: Tori Holmes

Page Start: 63


This article discusses the crowdfunded Brazilian webdocumentary project 
Domínio Público (produced by the audio-visual collective Paêbirú 
Realizações Cultivadas), which portrays urban transformations in Rio de 
Janeiro in the run-up to the city’s hosting of the 2014 FIFA World Cup 
and the 2016 Olympic Games, with a particular focus on the impact in the 
city’s favelas. It argues that Domínio Público can be understood as a 
snapshot of a key moment in the recent history of Rio de Janeiro and of 
Brazil, which intertwines Rio’s urban transformations with digital 
audio-visual culture, fundamental for the circulation and visibility of 
these processes in Brazil and abroad, as well as with national political 
processes and crises which would go on to take unforeseen directions and 
proportions after the film’s release. The article shows how circulation 
and visibility were embedded in the project from the outset, and became 
an intrinsic part of its critical narrative on urban transformations.


Haptic film spaces and the rhythms of everyday life in São Paulo  in 
Lima Chamie’s A via láctea 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24298/>

Authors: Andrew C. Rajca

Page Start: 87


In dialogue with Henri Lefebvre’s concept of ‘rhythmanalysis’ and 
Giuliana Bruno’s notion of ‘haptic cinema’, this article examines the 
ways that Brazilian director Lina Chamie’s 2007 film A via 
lácteaexplores imagined and material experiences of everyday life in the 
megalopolis of São Paulo. It suggests that a rhythmanalytic approach to 
the study of film spectatorship can offer new perspectives on 
multisensorial engagement with the cinematic city that move beyond the 
traditional focus on gaze in film studies. Via close ‘readings’ of the 
form and content of the film, the article explores how the cinematic 
apparatus (e.g. camera placement, editing, soundtrack) can create a 
haptic filmic space for viewers, where the multiple, contradictory 
temporal and spatial rhythms of urban environments can be felt and 
‘touched’. The article contends that by placing the notions of 
rhythmanalysis and haptic cinema into a productive dialogue, we can 
explore new ways to link socialscience-based urban studies and 
humanities inflected film studies in critical engagement with both the 
imagined and material city.


Urban fortunes: Spatializing the community of money in Alex de la 
Iglesia’s La comunidad 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24285/>

Authors: Malcolm A. Compitello

Page Start: 155


This article reads Alex de la Iglesia’s La comunidad(2000) as an act of 
resistance to urban transformation in Madrid and its deleterious 
consequences. Crucial to the arguments advanced in these pages are the 
idea of community and the importance of place. The former is one of the 
five formative elements of urban consciousness in David Harvey’s project 
of explaining the urban process under capital. The film presents an 
extended, problematic, examination of how a grouping that should bind 
people together can be skewed by money and capital to do the opposite. 
These pages also underscore the filmmaker’s deep engagement with urban 
issues in a way that makes the places in which the members of the 
community interact help form the arguments in favor of resisting the 
abuses of the urban process that he weaves into its narrative structure.


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