The purpose of this thematic issue is to offer a broader but at the same time specialized view into the cinematic city, by focusing on the urban as an essential cinematic space. With the title echoing Thom Andersen’s film Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), this issue tries to work towards a collection of creative and groundbreaking texts that examine the many issues arising from the dialog between the different theoretical approaches and the work of directors.
Editors: José Duarte, Luis Urbano
Publisher: The Apollonian
ISSN: 2393-9001
136 pages
Essays:
Introduction: The City Plays Itself – Cinema and the City
José Duarte and Luís Urbano
Control Freak Constructing a Virtual Cityscape: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”
Etienne Boumans
City, Cinema, Modernity in the 1960’s: The Cinematic Swinging London
Maria Helena Braga e Vaz da Costa
When Global the Global City Confronts Terrorism: New York City in Films on 9/11
Moxi Zhang
Future Slums: Problems of Urban Space in Science Fiction Cinema
David L. Pike
Dome and Away: Logan’s Run Post-Apocalyptic Cityscapes
Hermínia Sol
The Material World of Gattaca
Michael Johnston
The Haptic Utopia: Tarkovsky’s Resolution to the Conflict of the Oppressive Dystopian City in Stalker (1979)
Miguel Ezcurdia Arroyo
(Re)emerging from Ruins: Screening the American Postindustrial Urban Landscape of the 80’s
Luísa Sol
Representing the Banlieue’s Space: An Investigation Into French Cinema
Antonin Pruvot
Places of Otherness. Strategies of Urban Representation in Foreign Parts
