1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810933303321

Autore

Branigan Edward <1945->

Titolo

Point of view in the cinema : a theory of narration and subjectivity in classical film / / Edward Branigan ; foreword by David Bordwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton, , [1984]

©1984

ISBN

3-11-081759-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; ; 66

Classificazione

AP 45300

Disciplina

791.43/01

Soggetti

Motion picture plays - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Point of view (Literature)

Subjectivity in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Chapter 1 The Problem of Point of View -- Chapter 2 Film as System -- Chapter 3 Narration -- Chapter 4 Subjectivity -- Chapter 5 The Point-of-view Shot -- Chapter 6 Character Reflection and Projection -- Chapter 7 The Modern Text: Subjectivity under Siege from Fellini's 8 1/2 to Oshima's The Story of a Man Who Left His Will on Film -- Chapter 8 Metatheory -- Appendix Orthodox Theories of Narration -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to which mainstream mimetic theories have relied upon the elastic notion of an invisible, idealized observer, a convenient spook whom critics can summon up whenever they desire to "naturalize" style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise ways of tracing the fluctuations among a character's vision, dreams, wishes, and so forth. Branigan also explains the necessity of distinguishing levels of narration.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910370041103321

Autore

Rutherford Jonathan

Titolo

Redeploying Urban Infrastructure : The Politics of Urban Socio-Technical Futures / / by Jonathan Rutherford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030178871

3030178870

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages)

Disciplina

307.76

307.1216

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Physical geography

Human geography

Urban Sociology

Physical Geography

Human Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction - redeploying urban infrastructure -- Chapter 2: Water infrastructures, suburban living spaces and remaking socio-technical configurations in outer Stockholm -- Chapter 3: Engaging urban materialities of low carbon transformation in the green capital of Europe -- Chapter 4: Active infrastructures and the spirit of energy transition in Paris -- Chapter 5: Infrastructure integration and eco-city futures: permeability and politics of the closed loop of Hammarby Sjöstad -- Chapter 6: Smart grids and enhancing urban systems: reflections on ordering and disordering the city -- Chapter 7: Conclusion - infrastructure futures.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure. The book describes how socio-technical arrangements of energy and water provision are being recast in continuing efforts towards realising 'sustainable' transformation of cities. It critically investigates how infrastructure comes to matter by



analyzing the shifting capacities and entanglements of diverse actors with these systems, the various means they use to envision, enact and contest changes, and the wide-ranging social and political implications of emerging infrastructure transitions. Drawing on original research into urban infrastructure debates and projects in Stockholm and Paris, the author develops a novel conceptual framework for studying and acknowledging the active, vital role of infrastructure in constituting a material politics of urban transformation. Straddling the latest theoretical insights and empirical investigation of urban planning practice and socio-technical engineering of systems and flows, Redeploying Urban Infrastructure forges new, timely reflections and perspectives which will be of interest to the growing multidisciplinary community of scholars investigating infrastructure and to academics and practitioners with a concern for understanding the wider politics of urban futures. Jonathan Rutherford holds a research post at LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés), Université Paris Est and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France.