MIM 482 E SPRING TERM Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu Prof. Dr. Işıl Hacıhasanoğlu 7

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM movies about cities Cities and cinema are in very close relation. Cinema exists if cities exist since cinema born in cities and continue their life in cities. The 80 % of cinema products based on the stories in which urban life and urban environment described. Others are based on the subjects of country life and environment.

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM Characteristics of movies on cities: -settings: real cities and urban environment. Cities and urban environment designed and built for only cinema products. Mixed together real and imagined environments. More generally -To focus on what already exist, -To create different things in accordance with imagination -To focus on both (what already exist, and add some imaginative elements) movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM Movies realized in real environment: Alphaville (Godard), Berlin: Symphony of a City (Wlater Ruttmann) Imaginative city films: Metropolis (F. Lang) Mixed approach (real environment and imaginative environment): Blade Runner (Ridley) movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM -Movies showing different periods of cities -Movies showing a special part of a city -Movies showing a special citizen group of a city with focus on their special environment -Movies showing relations (and/or contradictions) between different groups of people living in the same city with special focus on their urban environmental issues. movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM -Cinema is an urban invention. Cinema was born in the suburbs of Lyon and progressed in the Boulevards of Paris -The movies of 1910’s realized in the streets of Paris and used 17th region of Paris, large urban spaces, bistros and rooftops of Paris. -The urban theme in movies of 1920’s became an independent type of movie and replaced to naïve cinema products -Passing documentary film to avangard type realized in 1920’s. Generally this event dedicated to director Rene Clair’ s works. movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM -Avangard movies like Clocks (1926), Walter Ruttman’ s Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927), Dziga Vertov’ s Man with a Camera (obtaining scenes form Moscow and Odessa together), Jean Vigo’s About Nice (1926) showed to urban approaches in that period. -American gung movies had also urban theme and subjects related with Chicago and Broadway sights in 1930’s. -In the same period the French movies like Rene Clair’s Under the Roofs of Paris celebrated the victory of socialist cinema and poetic realizm in cinema. movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM -It is generalized that 1940’ s and 50’ s movies showed the tendecy on realizing more studio work and less outdoor shooting. -New wave approach in cinema about 1950’ s real urban scenes came out again. Like Jean PeirreMelvile’s Two Men in Manhattan (1959). -Godard’ s Alphaville (1965) shows real environment of Paris. Its subject shows us the contradiction between center (Alphaville) and the pheripheries. movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM Special urban elements -Travel spaces (roads, trains, metro stations, railway stations) -Urban entrance or leaving spaces (Airports, railway stations, ports) -Special landmarks to show being in a special city. Like Eifel Tower for Paris, Clock Tower in Konak for Izmir, Old Galata Bridge for Istanbul -Urban background to give information about social, economic, cultural and behavioral characteristic of place, space and people in action. movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM -Iconic urban spaces in Turkish movies; examples -new commers to Istanbul from Anatolian country side Haydarpaşa Railway Station -Cultural shock in urban environment especially because of high density traffic Eminönü, Karaköy, Taksim Square -New commers form foreign countries, leaving for foreign countries Atatürk Airport, Sirkeci Railway Station -Romantic background shores of Bosphorous, Prince Island -Night life and fun business, Beyoğlu and Istiklal Street movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM movies about cities CASABLANCA (1942) Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid Director: Michael Curtiz Running Time: 102 min Also known: Everybody Comes to Rick's

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM movies about cities Casablanca was a North African French Colony city in the Second World War.

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM movies about cities Today Casablanca is one of the important cities of Maroc

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM movies about cities Staring in front of Rick’s Cafe Americain entrance From left Paul Hendreid, Ingrid Bergman, Humprey Bogart

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM movies about cities

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MIM 482 E SPRING TERM movies about cities Streets of Old City Quarter of Casablanca today

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM movies about cities

MIM 482 E SPRING TERM QUIZ Question; 1. What is the main affect of glass material in “Glass House” movie?