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AUDIOVISUAL REPRESENTATION OF CITY
ΟΑ0406, AUDIOVISUAL ART, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Elective at semester(s) 5, 7, 9, ECTS: 3
Cognitive Fields (2005/36/EU): Architectural Design, History and Theories.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

, Knowledge, Comprehension, Analysis, Synthesis

· Emphasis on a global approach to the representation of urban space.

· Visual perception and audiovisual documentation of historic, social and architectural data in an urban or landscape environment.

· Building an elementary Greek contemporary architecture audiovisual data base.

SUBJECT

The evolution of the representation of the city from the early cinema to present day video and interactive installations.

Course structure

  • Documentary film basic characteristics.
  • Space in the cinema and the audiovisual arts in general.
  • Iconographic space, architectural space, narrative space.
  • Scenariosandnarrationstructures.
  • Urban soundscape
  • Audiovisual production organization.
  • Camera and Editing principles and techniques.
  • City symphonies of the mid-war period
  • Neo-realism, free cinema, nouvelle vague and the city
  • Experimental cinema and the city
  • Video-art and the city
  • Contemporary trends in representing urban space

 

The students are asked to create an audiovisual project on a specific building or an urban space.

COMPULSORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1. Visions urbaines: villes d'Europe a l'ecran, Centre George Pompidou, c1994.
  2. Shiel Mark Fitzmaurice Tony, Cinema and the city: film and urban societies in a global context, Blackwell, 2001.
  3. Abel Richard, The cine goes to town: french cinema 1896 – 1914, University of California Press, 1994
  4. Le cinema dans la cite, Kiron, 2001
  5. Krause Linda Petro Patrice, Global cities: cinema, architecture, and urbanism in a digital age, Rutgers University Press, 2003.
  6. Barber Stephen, Projected cities: cinema and urban space, Reaktion Books, 2002.
  7. Visions urbaines: villes d'Europe a l'ecran/
    Paris : Centre George Pompidou, 1994.
  8. Sorlin Pierre, Mass Media, European Cinemas, European Societies: 1939-1990, Taylor & Francis 2007.
  9. Albrecht Donald, Designing dreams: modern architecture in the movies, Hennessey + Ingalls, 2000.

e-CLASS LINK

http://eclass.uth.gr/eclass/courses/MHXD169/