Cities and Film

Cities and Film

George Simmel 1858-1918

The effect on a city on the individual.

Urban Sociology

The resistance of the individual to being leveled swallowed up in the social technology mechanism.

Architect Louis Sullivan

Creator of modern skyscrapers

Form follow function.

Charles Scheeler

Images city tall powerful mechanism

Fordism: Mechanised labour relations

People become part of the machine.

This is parodied in the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times 1936.

Man and machine

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Factories closed unemployment goes up dramatically.

Leads to great depression

Manual labour and immigrants hit hardest.

Man with movie camera.

Flaneur

Role of the body in the city

A person who walks the city to experience it.

Apart form and a part of the crowd.

Man of leisure.

Walter Benjamin

Arcades project 1927-40

Berlin

Youth of the city

Interaction of the body and the city

Arbus/Hopper

Sophie Calle

Photographic piece of work relating to a city

For months I followed strangers on the street.

The Detective 1980

Get someone to follow here.

Wants to provide photographic evidence of her existence.

Cindy Sherman United film stills. 1977-80

Women lost of trapped by the city.

Wanted to be unidentifiable city. Nothing is revealed

Weegee Arther Felig

Following around the emergency services.

Perseus the incident.  

The Naked City