For those who are interested in reading more widely on the topics covered in this Architecture and Film course, we have compiled a shortlist of books, chapters and various publications that range in disciplines, including Architecture, Landscape Studies, Cinema and Media, Visual Theory and Aesthetics.
The HKU Library is a useful place to start in finding some of these titles. If the university library does not have it in holdings, you may request it via another institution by submitting through HKALL request.
- AlSayyad, N. (2001). Hybrid urbanism: On the identity discourse and the built environment. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
- Berger, J. (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting Co.: Penguin Books, 7-33.
- Braester, Y. and Tweedie, J. 2010. Cinema at the City’s Edge: Film and Urban Networks in East Asia. Hong Kong: HKU Press.
- Clark, D. B. (1997). The cinematic city. London: Routledge.
- Jenks, C. ed. (1995). Visual Culture. London: Routledge.
- Jameson, F. (1992). The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System. Bloomington, I.N.: Indiana University Press.
- Prakash, G. (2010). Noir urbanisms: Dystopic images of the modern city. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
- Thomson, D. (2015). What is Cinematic Information? In How to Watch a Movie (pp. 77-94). London: Profile Books.