Arriving In The City: Space, Event and Cinema Readings

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Required Reading


Roland Barthes, “Semiology and Urbanism”, Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, Neil Leach eds. 1997
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1gOh4l

Mark Shiel. “Cinema and the City in History and Theory”, Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context, ed. Tony Fitzmaurice and Mark Shiel, 2001
http://pan.baidu.com/s/13iMhN

Reference Reading

Bernard Tschumi, “Six Concepts”, Architecture and Disjunction, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.227-259
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1AAuqF

Complete Version
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1xJhMN

Yomi Braester, “Arriving in the City; Touring the City; Watching the City”, Cinema at the City’s Edge:  Film and Urban Networks in East Asia. Yomi Braester, James Tweedie, eds., Hong Kong University Press: 2010.

http://pan.baidu.com/s/15QCvM

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