Journal article
Rethinking the City Symphony after the Age of Industry : Harun Farocki and the ‘City Film’
Intermédialités (Montréal), Vol.11(11), pp.69-86
03/01/2008
Abstract
Abstract
Harun Farocki’s films and installation works have often revisited the question—central
to the history of experimental filmmaking—of the city and its representability. Focusing on
Farocki’s recent installation Gegen-Musik, this
article explores his efforts to reconfigure the genre of the Stadtsinfonie (city symphony) for a post-industrial era. To the difference of
other recent efforts to renew modernist strategies for representing the city, Farocki
interrogates the possibility of such a genre in an era characterized by the marginalization
of human labor, industry and the image itself.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rethinking the City Symphony after the Age of Industry : Harun Farocki and the ‘City Film’
- Creators
- Michael Cowan - McGill University
- Contributors
- Johanne Lamoureux (Editor)Philippe Despoix (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Intermédialités (Montréal), Vol.11(11), pp.69-86
- Publisher
- Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité
- ISSN
- 1705-8546
- eISSN
- 1920-3136
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9984432520602771
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