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| While cinema has been invented over a hundred years and getting influential in shaping people’s perspectives to our environments, the studies of cinematic urbanism have only initiated since 1990s. During the past decades, this interdisciplinary field has developed upon the scholarships of various disciplines, including film and media studies, cultural studies, history, geography, urban studies, etc. This course intends to introduce this still young field through chronologically examining the relationships between cinema and cities, from both being used to celebrate and mediate the modern feelings,to film noir playing a crucial role to criticize and depict urban problems, and to cinematic urban imaginaries boosting tourism and intervening in urban process. Students will learn the theories and methodologies of cinematic urbanism studies, comprehending cinema and different urban spaces as powerful medium that could be manipulated to create, transmit, and perceive certain ideologies.
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