Lecture- Cities and Film

This lecture looks at:
the city in modernism
the beginning of an urban sociology
the city as public and private space

Georg Simmel 
German  Socialist 
Desden Exhibition 1903, Surrealism and dada 

Urban sociology 
the resistance of the individual to being levels swallowed up int he social technological mechanism 

Architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
creator of the modern sky scraper

The details of the guaranty building

Carson Pririe Scott store in Chicago

Sky scrapers represent the upwardly mobile city of business opportunity, the sky's the limit in the city. 

Charles Scheeler- an advertising photographer with use of abstract photography, hew worked for ford and displays modernism 

this idea is also examined in Fordism: mechanised labour relations. 

Charlie Chaplin- Modern times- the film potrays Chalie Chaplin as a factory worker and he suffers a breakdown. 

Stock market crash of 1929- unemployment goes up dramatically, leads to the 'great depression' the contrast between whats actually being advertised and whats actually happening 

Sophie Calle Suite Venitienne
for months she follwed strangers on the street without them knowing, she followed one man to venice

another project by Sophie Calle
The detective 1980 
She hires a detective to follow someone, she invents it into a love story 

Here is New York book/ exhibition- when the twin towers came down, images from the attack. Images by everyone from random people in the attack, firefighters and profesional photographers. 

Joel Meyerowitz- Broadway and the west 46th street
Theres a lot going on really captures how crazy the city is.