Thursday 30 October 2014

cities and film lecture notes

louis sullivan- creator of the skyscraper
skyscraper represents upwardly mobileness - the sky is the limit.
manhattan film- celebration of transport and built environment -

- individual part of the machine - modern times (1936 charlie chaplin
the eponymous manufacturing system designed to drew out standardised,

susan buck-morss
the only figure a woman on the street can be is either a prostiture or a bag lady

Woman at the counter smoking- 1962- alone, repressing city in the window

sophie calle suite venitienne - following strangers around the city -

city as a labyrinth of streets alleyway in which you can get lost but at the same time will alwaud end up back where you begin - dont look now (1973) nicholas


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