Architectures of Revolt

The Cinematic City circa 1968

Mark Shiel, Mark Shiel

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781439910054
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the worldwide mass protest movements of 1968—against war, imperialism, racism, poverty, misogyny, and homophobia—the exciting anthology Architectures of Revolt explores the degree to which the real events of political revolt in the urban landscape in 1968 drove change in the attitudes and practices of filmmakers and architects alike.

In and around 1968, as activists and filmmakers took to the streets, commandeering public space, buildings, and media attention, they sought to re-make the urban landscape as an expression of utopian longing or as a dystopian critique of the established order. In Architectures of Revolt, the editor and contributors chronicle city-specific case studies from Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Chicago to New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The films discussed range from avant-garde and agitprop shorts to mainstream narrative feature films. All of them share a focus on the city and, often, particular streets and buildings as places of political contestation and sometimes violence, which the medium of cinema was uniquely equipped to capture.

Contributors include: Stephen Barber, Stanley Corkin, Jesse Lerner, Jon Lewis, Gaetana Marrone, Jennifer Stob, Andrew Webber, and the editor.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Cinema, Architecture, and Cities circa 1968 / Mark Shiel
• 1. The Cinétracts, Détournement, and Social Space in Paris / Jennifer Stob
• 2. Milan, the Cine City of 1968: Metamorphosis and Identity / Gaetana Marrone
• 3. Inextinguishable Fire—or How to Make a Film in Berlinin 1968 / Andrew J. Webber
• 4. Slouching toward Chicago in Search of Peace and Love: Medium Cool and Chicago 1968 / Jon Lewis
• 5. New York, 1968 / Stanley Corkin
• 6. “It’s a Big Garage.” Cinematic Images of Los Angeles circa 1968 / Mark Shiel
• 7. Cinema and the Mexico City of 1968 / Jesse Lerner
• 8. Tokyo 1969: Revolutionary Image-Thieves in the Disintegrating City / Stephen Barber
• Contributors
• Film Title Index
• Subject Index