Space and Landscape in Patrick Keiller’s films
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Space, Landscape, Urban criticismAbstract
Using the sensibility defined by the flâneur in the nineteenth century as the background, this paper will analyze Patrick Keiller’s films, approaching them from the perspective of the travelogue as a documentary subgenre and relating them to the concept of landscape. His “fictionalized documentaries” are direct heirs to the urban wanderer’s (essentially modern) conscience and sensibility. His travelogues demonstrate a consistent exploration of the relationship between architectonic and filmic spaces. Keiller’s oeuvre can also be associated with a sort of movement in British culture in the last thirty years: that of the observation and analysis of cities, urban life and postwar urbanism, and of critical instance to the sedimentation of post-Thatcherite capitalism.
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