Reframing Berlin: Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations (Mediated Cities) - Hardcover

Wilson, Christopher S.; Kacmaz Erk, Gul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178938687X ISBN 13: 9781789386875

Publisher: Intellect Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

A study of the ways Berlin has been depicted in cinema and the ways its architectural transformations inform our understanding of the city and its memories.
 
Concerned with the connection between the built environment and the passage of time, Reframing Berlin uses film locations in the city to reveal the influence that urban transformation has on memory-making. Covering the city’s history since the beginning of cinema, the book proposes the term urban strategy to understand the range of consequential actions taken by politicians, developers, and other powerful figures to shape the nature and future of buildings, streets, and districts. Organizing these strategies from demolition to memorialization, the authors study the ways these actions forget or recall aspects of place. Using cinematic representations of Berlin as an audiovisual archive, the study details how the city has adjusted to its traumatic twentieth-century history through architectural transformations. Two dissimilar case studies frame each strategy, indicating that an approach that works for one building may not be sufficient for another.

About this title

About the Authors

Christopher S. Wilson is a lecturer at Ringling College of Art + Design.

Gül Kaçmaz Erk is a senior lecturer in architecture at Queen’s University Belfast.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 178938687X
• ISBN 13: 9781789386875
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 412