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Cinemascapes : = Cinematic Sublimity and Spatial Configurations -- or -- Learning from Los Angeles.

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Title/Author:	Cinemascapes :/
Reminder of title:	Cinematic Sublimity and Spatial Configurations -- or -- Learning from Los Angeles.
Author:	Kirchner, Carolin.
Description:	1 online resource (174 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-11A(E).
Subject:	Art history. -
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ISBN:	9780438077577

Cinemascapes : = Cinematic Sublimity and Spatial Configurations -- or -- Learning from Los Angeles.
Kirchner, Carolin.

Cinemascapes :Cinematic Sublimity and Spatial Configurations -- or -- Learning from Los Angeles. - 1 online resource (174 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Due to the shift in production practices and the availability of lighter camera equipment in the mid-1960s, filmmakers began to cinematically explore Los Angeles (LA) many environments. Utilizing the city's diverse neighborhoods, unique architectural styles, and geographical topography, their films created imaginary spaces that sought to specifically represent LA, but also reflected post-war American urban restructuring processes in general. European filmmakers John Boorman, Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda, and Michelangelo Antonioni seemed to be especially perceptive regarding the specificity of the spaces they encountered in Los Angeles, and their films illustrate ambivalent feelings toward the built environment feelings that seem to run parallel to cultural and theoretical investigations taking place in the academy. Aided by the founding of the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning, a new wave of scholars and theorists utilized Los Angeles in their writing as the most important case study for the postmodern megalopolis. Like Boorman, Demy, Varda, and Antonioni, neither of the leaders of this theoretical interest in Los Angeles Kevin Lynch, Jane Jacobs, Reyner Banham, and Edward Soja were native Californians. Thus, the films in question need to be considered within the broader framework of a developing critical spatial awareness characterized by the re-evaluation of lived environment and built space, which was shaped by an outsider's perspective.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438077577Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180038
Art history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Cinemascapes : = Cinematic Sublimity and Spatial Configurations -- or -- Learning from Los Angeles.
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