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

Wilson, Christopher S.; Kacmaz Erk, Gul

ISBN 10: 178938964X / ISBN 13: 9781789389647

Published by Intellect Ltd, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reframing Berlin: Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations (Mediated Cities)
• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178938964X
• ISBN 13: 9781789389647
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

About the Authors

Christopher S. Wilson is an architecture and design historian at Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida, USA. He is also the “scholar-in residence” of the non-profit Architecture Sarasota.

Gul Kacmaz Erk is a senior lecturer in architecture at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. She is also the founding director of CACity (Cinema
and Architecture in the City), Collaborative Research Group.