Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination

Renée Tobe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780754679363
• eBook ISBN:
  9781315533711
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

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.

Index

• 10th Victim, The (1965) 118, 127n32
• 24 Hour Psycho (1993) 173, 180n37
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) vii 107, 108, 113, 119–22, 126n1, 144n42

• Adams, Brooke 136
• Adorno, Theodor 58, 59, 63
• advertisements 63, 70, 74, 82, 86
  • advertising 28, 53, 64, 81, 82, 110
• Akerman, Chantal 97, 98, 101–2, 104–5 see also Jeanne Dielman, quai de Commerce, 1080, Bruxelles 23
• Akira (1987) 145, 146, 147, 148, 149–53, 155, 160n1, 162n32, 162n34
• Alfie (1966) 2, 17n8
• Alloway, Laurence 81, 82
• Almendros, Nestor 137, 138
• Alphaville (1964) 16
• American Beauty (1999) 7
• Amies, Hardy 122
• Anderson, Margaret 39, 40
• Andrews, Dana 64, 66–8, 70, 71, 72
• Anémic Cinéma (1926) 53, 56n65
• anime x, 145–57
• Annas, Julia 12
• Antheil, Georgen 39–40, 48, 54n10, 55n39
  • ‘space-time’ 39
  • Transatlantic 39, 54n10
  • Airplane Sonata 40
  • Death of the Machines 40
  • Mechanisms 40 see also Ballet mécanique
• Antonioni, Michelangelo vii 3, 5, 13, 16, 35n45, 80, 88–93, 95n40, 95n41 see also Blow-up La Notte L’Eclisse
• anxiety 21, 164
• Apollo space missions 127n35
• aporia 109
• Appia, Adolph 22
• Arendt...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• German Expressionist film and Heidegger’s fourfold
• French moderne, modernist noir, and moderns as masters of reinvention
• The domestic front: Hollywood and post-war cinema
• Swinging time in London
• Positioning women in time and space
• Modernist Utopia: the spirit of the future
• Not thinking but questioning: Terrence Malick’s expressions of world and ground in film
• Speeding into the unfixed future in Tokyo
• Fear and trembling: a study of why movies make us afraid
• Sources and further reading
• Index