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Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

420 kr

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Amid deepening socio-ecological crises, urban realities are changing fundamentally. Cinema, a medium historically intertwined with the city, has likewise undergone a profound transformation in its modes of representation and visual culture since the late 1980s. Today, filmmakers, photographers, and radical artists investigate the distant landscapes and territories of extended urbanization in all their complexity. Films like Behemoth (Zhao Liang, 2015), Homo Urbanus (Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine, 2010), and Leviathan (Véréna Paravel, 2012) exemplify this practice. But how do cinema and the representation of the city mutually shape each other? This book stages an encounter between filmmaking and the built environment, as well as film theory and the theory of planetary urbanization by deploying the notion of the urban sensorium as a conceptual lens. It foregrounds the multifaceted sensory experiences of urban life within and beyond the city, and its representation in cinema.With a foreword by Neil Brenner and contributions by Nitin Bathla, Silvia Cipelletti, Markus Lähteenmäki, Klearjos E. Papanicolaou, Äsel Kadyrkhanova, Mosè Cometta, Jacqueline Maurer, Sofie Stilling, Søren Nielsen, Hans Teerds, Fred Truniger, Emil Hvelplund Kristiansen, Anne Romme, Lorenzo Tripodi, Adam Jasper, Junia Cambraia Mortimer, Roberto Luís Monte-Mór, Rosa Barba, Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki, Christian Schmid, Ana Vaz, Hira Nabi, Chrystel Oloukoï, Louise Lemoine and Ila BêkaBrings together contemporary visual culture with the transformative theory of planetary urbanizationFeatures contributions from scholars, researchers, filmmakers, and practitionersDraws on various academic disciplines and creative practices including film, urban studies, geography, architecture, architectural history, and cultural studiesExcerpts of works by the filmmakers featured in the book can be accessed via the ETH Zürich Research Collection:All the Dreams We Dream: ExcerptÄSEL KADYRKHANOVAhttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788727https://video.ethz.ch/!v/PcPvCeiplv655°42’14.8”N 12°33’18.4”ESOFIE STILLING, SØREN NIELSEN, and HANS TEERDShttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788734https://video.ethz.ch/!v/AMdfbtCtOvqTeaching Architecture Through an Eye-Level Perspective: ExamplesEMIL HVELPLUND KRISTIANSEN and ANNE ROMMEhttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788738https://video.ethz.ch/!v/E_FW8yYedhIhttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/MOQdFlbJsgkhttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/AII3KaUrTYuCinematic Urbanism: ExamplesLORENZO TRIPODIhttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788749https://video.ethz.ch/!v/FjH1PqUq0jrhttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/GA-bRExEClRhttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/AJ8mR5Uj-9TWe Have Extra Lives – Cinema, Gaming,Language, and the Production of Hong Kong Space: AccompanimentADAM JASPER and PETER NELSONhttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788744https://video.ethz.ch/!v/BR8nLSO09OeUrban-Nature Archives: FragmentsJUNIA CAMBRAIA MORTIMER and ROBERTO LUÍS MONTE-MÓRhttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788732https://video.ethz.ch/!v/NQYeveOFdBDhttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/AebcYBoy-VNhttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/C86DCKISH_vCommunity Media: VideosCHRISTIAN SCHMIDhttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788750https://video.ethz.ch/!v/Pjs9WjHu53thttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/HYy-qEUrPqyAll That Perishes At The Edge Of Land: ExcerptsHIRA NABIhttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788729https://video.ethz.ch/!v/DlUjDUUFiSShttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/MTUykQT6Pwvhttps://video.ethz.ch/!v/MFhdm2NKbQ6Homo Urbanus: TrailerLOUISE LEMOINE and ILA BÊKAhttps://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000788712https://video.ethz.ch/!v/GO2dwFW7_oi

Off-Center

Architectures of Russian and Soviet Imperialism

AvDa Hyung Jeong,Markus Lähteenmäki

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

916 kr

Kommande

How architecture and built environments shaped Russian and Soviet imperial power and its lasting legacies.Empire leaves traces in the places people live, work and move through every day. As Russia’s war against Ukraine has returned questions of Russian imperialism to the center of public debate, Off-Center offers the historical background needed to understand the present moment. The book tells the story of Russian and Soviet empire-building through the buildings, streets, settlements and landscapes that made and make imperial rule possible. From Helsinki’s military-engineered urban landscape and Kyiv’s contested religious architecture to the industrialized valleys of Central Asia and model Soviet towns in Uzbekistan, its chapters show how imperial power was built into everyday environments across a vast territory. Instead of focusing on capitals and rulers, it turns to the borderlands and outer regions of the empire, bringing overlooked places and everyday spaces into view. Looking at empire through the built environment reveals how power took shape not only in politics and war, but also in the organization of daily life and the spaces people inhabited. Original, timely and wide-ranging, Off-Center opens a new way of thinking about empire and the worlds it created.