Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacihasanoglu

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• MIM 482 E 2005-2006 SPRING TERM
• Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacihasanoglu
• Prof. Dr. Isil Hacihasanoglu
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• 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.
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• movies about cities

• 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)

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• movies about cities

• 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)

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• movies about cities

• 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.

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• movies about cities

• Cinema is an urban invention. Cinema was born in
  the suburbs of Lyon and progressed in the
  Boulevards of Paris
• The movies of 1910s 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 1920s became an
  independent type of movie and replaced to naïve
  cinema products
• Passing documentary film to avangard type
  realized in 1920s. Generally this event
  dedicated to director Rene Clair s works.

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• movies about cities

• 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
  Vigos 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 1930s.
• In the same period the French movies like Rene
  Clairs Under the Roofs of Paris celebrated the
  victory of socialist cinema and poetic realizm in
  cinema.

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• 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
  PeirreMelviles 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.

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movies about cities

• 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.

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• movies about cities

• -Iconic urban spaces in Turkish movies examples
• -new commers to Istanbul from Anatolian country
  side Haydarpasa 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, Beyoglu and Istiklal
  Street

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• 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
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• movies about cities

Casablanca was a North African French Colony city
in the Second World War.
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• movies about cities

Today Casablanca is one of the important cities
of Maroc
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Staring in front of Ricks Cafe Americain
entrance From left Paul Hendreid, Ingrid
Bergman, Humprey Bogart
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Streets of Old City Quarter of Casablanca today
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• QUIZ- 14.03.2006
• Question
• What is the main affect of glass material in
  Glass House movie?