THE CITY AND THE MOVING IMAGE This course will explore the complex and longstanding intersections and exchanges between cinema and the city. The rise of cinema interacted closely and from the beginning with the culture of emerging urban modernity and new forms of consciousness, time, and motion. The city has proved to be a stimulating and diverse cinematic setting and subject, and provided constant inspiration for cinematic experimentation. Exchanges between the city and cinema have continued and intensified throughout the 20thand into the 21stcentury, with the identities of places becoming intertwined with their cinematic depictions. In this course, we will focus on the medium's technical features, especially montage and spatial manipulation, and examine how themes, narratives, affects, and cultural meanings are embodied in the cinematography, editing, location shooting and set design of cinematic cities. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches to film and urban space, we will analyze various genres and modes of filmmaking including the "city symphonies" of the 1920s, film noir, and dystopian science fiction film. And we will examine the image of the city in films from French New Wave, Italian Neorealism, Hong Kong Cinema, and Turkish German Cinema. In turn, students will develop an understanding of the evolving relationship between cinema, architecture, and urban life across multiple global cities and different cultures and historical periods. Moreover, we will examine how cinematic cities express and contest issues of the national and the global, the modern and the postmodern, and the networks of power relations associated with race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and migration.

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