The City and the Moving Image

1. Introduction: Projecting the Urban
Richard Koeck, Les Roberts

Part I. Projecting the City: Place, Space and Identity

2. ‘Old World Traditions … and Modernity’ in Cunard’s Transatlantic Films, c. 1920–35: Making Connections between Early Promotional Films and Urban Change
Heather Norris Nicholson

3. Nice: Virtual City
Isabelle McNeill

4. Visions of Community: The Postwar Housing Problem in Sponsored and Amateur Films
Ryan Shand

5. ‘City of Change and Challenge’: The Cine-Societies’ Response to the Redevelopment of Liverpool in the 1960s
Julia Hallam

Part II. Of Time and the City: Landscapes of Memory and Absence

6. Towards a History of Empty Spaces
Charlotte Brunsdon

7. Tacita Dean’s Optics of Refusal
Tara McDowell

8. Searching for the City: Cinema and the Critique of Urban Space in the Films of Keiller, Cohen, and Steinmetz and Chanan
Ian Robinson

9. A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau and KZ Munich
Alan Marcus

Part III. Cinematic Cartography: Film, Mapping and Urban Topography

10. Mapping the City through Film: From ‘Topophilia’ to Urban Mapscapes
Teresa Castro

11. Towards (East) London 2012: Emily Richardson’s Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009), and the Work of Iain Sinclair
Paul Newland

12. The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895–1914)
Maurizio Cinquegrani

13. Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption, and Cinematographic Tourism
Les Roberts

Part IV. Cine-Tecture: Film, Architecture and Narrativity

14. Cine-Montage: The Spatial Editing of Cities
Richard Koeck

15. Informing Contemporary Architectural and Urban Design with Historic Filmic Evidence
Robert Kronenburg

16. The Real City in the Reel City: Towards a Methodology through the Case of Amélie
François Penz

17. Let Architecture ‘Play’ Itself: A Case Study
Helmut Weihsmann

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Film and Television Studies, Design, general, Architecture, general, Media Studies, Building Types and Functions