Friday, 4 January 2013

Cities and Film - Helen Clarke


George Simmel ( 1858-1918)

German sociologist 
Dresden exhibition 1903

Urban sociology 

Lewis Hine
Documentary nature

He is picturing a venerable body in relation to the vastness of the city. The imbalance and risk of this action. Looking at the resistance of the individual. Emphasising the indervidual being swallowed by the city. 

Architect Louis sullivan (1856-1924)

Creator of the modern sky scraper

Carson prairie scott store in Chicago
Enables for his to start again. Sy scrapers represent the idea of upwardly mobile city of business opportunity. 

Manhatta film

Charles Sheeler 

Ford motor company's plant at river rouge, Detroit

People thinking at this time how it looks and how it effects the people who work their. How the body becomes part of the machinery in e factory, everything is very repetitive. It's a way of gaming maximum productivity. 

Modern times (Chaplin) 1936

He struggles to be apart of the machine. His boss ends up being trapped. Chaplin is making a moment of the aspect of modernity. Maybe quite comic but he delivers his message. 

Stock market crash of 1929

Factories close and go unemployment goes up dramatically 

Flaneur

The term flanger comes from the French masculine non flaneur 

Sitting back and observing the social interaction.

Walter Benjamin.

Thinking about as a child. Strolling through arcades with his mother. (Childhood memories)
Photographer as flaneur 

The photographer is armed version of the social walker, stalking, cruising the urban inferno. The voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape. Sitting back and capturing moments. 

Flaneus 
  • The invisible flaneuse. Women and the literature of modernity.
  • Janet woff
  • Theory, culture and society November 1985
Arbus/hopper

Woman at the counter smoking (1962)

Automat (1927)

Venice 

Architecture of the city invites a certain relationship. Your in a kind of Mae. Gt lost but in a inner space which is defined and fixed.

Don't look now (1973)

Plays with the timeline. We are not quite sure what we are seeing.which had we are seeing through.

The detective (1980)

Almost a filmic story acted out.  Film look. Black and white.

Cities and geornolism 

They refer to the work as a democracy. Attempt to democratise the photo process. 

Weegee (Arthur felig)

The arrived on the scene first to any crime. He was to here about the crimes through radio the quickest so he got the best shots. 

The naked city 1945-1948

La noire 2011

Challenges the player to control the la police department. Players investigate crime scenes and suspects. 

Metropolis 1929

Ridley Scott's Blade runner 1982/2019, LA

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