Cinematic cities (A history of Western modernity from the screen to reality)

Author: Dr. Nizar Al-Sayyad Category: History Pages: 392 Year of publication: 2024 Format: Paperback Publisher: Al-Ain for Publishing and Distribution Overview: - A distinguished work authored by Nizar Al-Sayyad, which addresses the history of Western modernity from the screen to reality. The book provides an analysis of the form of cinematic architecture and the urban history of modernity and post-modernity through the lens of the camera and the cinema screen. The book discusses the blurring of the line between reality and imagination through a series of famous American and European films that represent important points in the development of human civilization. The book concludes that both urban reality and the depicted urbanism on the cinematic strip in the twentieth century mutually establish each other, making the study of one alone without the other unproductive because they are two sides of the same coin.