The architecture of the screen : essays in cinematographic space

The architecture of the screen : essays in cinematographic space / Graham Cairns ; foreword by François Penz ; Holly Rose, cover designer.

"With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. The Architectu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cairns, Graham (Author)
Other Authors: Penz, François (writer of foreword.), Rose, Holly
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2013.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
Space (Architecture) > In motion pictures.
Architecture in motion pictures.
Architectural design > In motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Influence.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General
Architecture in motion pictures
Motion pictures > Influence
Motion pictures > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Film reviews : The cinema of the French New Wave and the illusionism of SITE architects: Les carabiniers, 1963
  • The architecture of Diller and Scofidio: the screen and surveillance: Das experiment, 2001
  • The "cut" in the architecture of Jean Nouvel and the scenery of Ken Adam: You only live twice, 1967
  • The visual narratives of Resnais in the architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Hiroshima Mon Amour, 1959
  • German Baroque architecture and the filming of Resnais: a fusion: Last year in Marienbad, 1961
  • Sigfreid Giedion, Rem Koolhaas and the fragmentary architecture of the city, Run Lola run: 1998
  • The aesthetics and formalism of Godfrey Reggio in the projects of Jean Nouvel: Koyaanisqatsi, 1982
  • Boullée on film: an architectural cinematography: The belly of an architect, 1987
  • Playtime: a commentary on the art of the Situationists, the philosophy of Henri Lefebvre and the architecture of the modern movement: Playtime, 1967
  • Venturi and Antonioni: the modern city and the phenomenon of the moving image: Zabriskie Point, 1970
  • Part II. Applying film to architecture : Video installation: Hybrid artworks
  • The physical experience of space and the sensorial perception of image : Performance 1. Shadows ; Performance 2. Memories ; Performance 3. Echoes ; Incidental legacy: a technical description
  • The physical experience of image and the sensorial perception of space : The world imagined by Diller and Scofidio ; Performance: Jet lag ; Installation: Loophole ; Architecture: The slow house
  • Cinematographic architecture: exercises in theory and practice
  • Cinematographic space: a study of Citizen Kane : [Scenes 1-4] Citizen Kane
  • From the contradictions of film to the creativity of architecture: design workshop : Stage 1. Cinematographic analysis of film ; Stage 2. Filming space ; Stage 3. Storyboarding spaces ; Stage 4. Storyboarding architectural events ; Stage 5. Design proposals
  • Part III Conceptual essays : The hybridisation of sight in the hybrid architecture of sport: the effects of television on stadia and spectatorship
  • Cinematic movement in the work of Le Corbusier and Sergei Eisenstein
  • The historical construction of cinematic space: an architectural perspective on the films of Jean Renoir and Yasujiro Ozu
  • Cinematic phenomenology in architecture: the Cartier Foundation, Paris, Jean Nouvel
  • Cinematic space and time: the morphing of a theory in film and architecture.

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