Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Caldwell, Lesley (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 337-346

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

10 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch29

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

idea of Naples, as a city, shaping private lives ‐ through dominance of public spaces, bringing together architecture, geography and people , L'amore molesto ‐ a book by Elena Ferrante , Martone's first feature movie, Morte di un matematico napoletano ‐ local ambience around symbolic city space , imagining Naples ‐ senses of the city , Martone's two movies, a city ‐ using images of Naples to represent the personal , death of a Neapolitan mathematician , noise, one of the most notable elements of contemporary Naples ‐ constant sound, accompaniment of most of the second film , lives of two protagonists ‐ family and domestic life, rhythms of Naples and of South consistent across cinematic imaging , images and sensations of city ‐ externalization of protagonists' introspective fantasies , Martone's use of city/person connection ‐ inversion of traditional theatricality and spectacle of Naples