Architecture and Film

Architecture and Film
Author: Mark Lamster
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781568982076

An examination of the ways in which architecture and architects are treated on screen and how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. There are essays from contributors from a range of disciplines and interviews of those working behind the scenes.

Skyscraper Cinema

Skyscraper Cinema
Author: Merrill Schleier
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816642818

From the silent era until the advent of the Cinemascope--the skyscraper as movie star. Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier establishes and explains the impact of actual skyscrapers on America's ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies.

Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination

Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination
Author: Renée Tobe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1315533723

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological approach, it describes how we, the viewers, can learn how to read architecture and design in film in order to see the many inherent messages. Architecture’s representational capacity contributes to the plausibility or 'reality' possible in film. The book provides an ontological understanding that clarifies and stabilizes the reciprocity of the actual world and a filmic world of illusion and human imagination, thereby shedding light on both film and architecture.

Film Architecture

Film Architecture
Author: Dietrich Neumann
Publisher: Prestel Pub
Total Pages: 207
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783791321639

Catalog of an exhibition held at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, R.I., Dec. 8, 1995-Jan. 21, 1996, and at other museums and galleries through Sept. 1996.

Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination

Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination
Author: Tim Bergfelder
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9053569804

Summary: "Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s; based on a wealth of designers ʼ drawings, film stills and archival documents, the book offers a new insight into the development and significance of trans-national artistic collaboration during this period. European cinema from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is famous for its attention to detail in terms of set design and visual effect. Focusing on developments in Britain, France, and Germany, Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema provides a comprehensive analysis of the practices, styles, and function of cinematic production design during this period, and its influence on subsequent filmmaking patterns."--Publisher description.

Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema

Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema
Author: Nadir Lahiji
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000392104

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Discussing cinema as ‘mass art’, they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing ‘mass art’. In this work author Nadir Lahiji proposes that the philosophical understanding of the collective human sensorium in the apparatus of perception must once again find its true training ground in architecture. Building art puts the collective mass in the position of an ‘expert critic’ who identifies themselves with the technical apparatus of architecture. Only then can architecture regain its status as ‘mass art’ and, as the book contends, only then can it resume its function as the only ‘artform’ that is designed for the political pedagogy of masses, which originally belonged to it in the period of modernity before the invention of cinema.

The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces

The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces
Author: Mehruss Jon Ahi
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Architectural design in motion pictures
ISBN: 9781789382051

A highly visual, graphic analysis of film in terms of architecture, cinematic spaces and production design. Architectural floor plan drawings are presented alongside short, critical discussions of key twentieth and twenty-first-century films which help the reader to evaluate architectural spaces in film and think about the stories they tell.

The Wrong House

The Wrong House
Author: Steven Jacobs
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2007
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 906450637X

Architecture plays an important role In the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Steven Jacobs devotes lengthy discussion to a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans made specially for this book.

Cinema and Architecture

Cinema and Architecture
Author: Francois Penz
Publisher: British Film Institute
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1997-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Cinematic Aided Design

Cinematic Aided Design
Author: François Penz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2017-08-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317526627

Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture provides architects, planners, designer practitioners, politicians and decision makers with a new awareness of the practice of everyday life through the medium of film. This novel approach will also appeal to film scholars and film practitioners with an interest in spatial and architectural issues, as well as researchers from cultural studies in the field of everyday life. The everyday life is one of the hardest things to uncover since by its very nature it remains overlooked and ignored. However, cinema has over the last 120 years represented, interpreted and portrayed hundreds of thousands of everyday life situations taking place in a wide range of dwellings, streets and cities. Film constitutes the most comprehensive lived in building data in existence. Cinema created a comprehensive encyclopedia of architectural spaces and building elements. It has exposed large fragments of our everyday life and everyday environment that this book is aiming to reveal and restitute.