Reframing Berlin

Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations

Christopher S. Wilson,Gul Kacmaz Erk

• Editore: Intellect Books
• Anno: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781789386899
• Argomento: Architecture
• Categoria: History of Architecture

Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory, through its transformation and consistency over time by means of 'urban strategies', which have developed throughout history as cities have adjusted to numerous political, religious, economic and societal changes. These strategies are organised on a 'memory spectrum', which range from demolition to memorialisation.

It reveals the complicated relationship between urban strategies and their influence on memory-making in the context of Berlin since 1895, with the help of film locations. It utilises cinematic representations of locations as an audio-visual archive to provide a deeper analysis of the issues brought up by strategies and case studies in relation to memory-making.

Foreword by Kathleen James-Chakraborty

A new volume in the Mediated Cities series from Intellect

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Demolition
• 2. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Temporary Installation
• 3. From Scratch: New Construction
• 4. Business or Pleasure?:Disneyfication
• 5. Cycle of Life: Mutation
• 6. Prosthetic Limbs: Supplementation
• 7. Frozen in Time: Suspension
• 8. On the Move: Relocation
• 9. Survival Instinct: Adaptation
• 10. Altered States: Appropriation
• 11. My Precious!: Preservation
• 12. Once upon a Time: Memorialization
• Conclusions:
• Filmography
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover