Film, Mobility and Urban Space

A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool

Les Roberts

Les Roberts

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

248 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2012
Cloth $95.00 ISBN: 9781846317576 Published March 2012 For sale in North America only
Reevaluating 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. Les Roberts draws on over 1,700 films of Liverpool from 1897 to the present and combines critical spatial analysis, archival research, and qualitative methods to navigate the city’s cinematic geographies as mapped across a broad spectrum of film genres, including amateur film, travelogues, newsreels, promotional films, documentaries, and features.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements

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

Afterword
References
Index
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