The City of the Future revisited or, the lost world of Patrick Keiller
The City of the Future revisited or, the lost world of Patrick Keiller
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重访未来之城，或者帕特里克·凯勒失落的世界
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00235.x
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
D. Clarke
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作者：
D. Clarke
本文重点关注帕特里克·凯勒 2005 年的长片《未来之城》，重新审视电影城市。凯勒的电影完全由现成的镜头组成，使用字幕将不同的早期现实电影形成统一的叙事。它涉及到一次围绕英国的虚构旅行，由一位看不见的叙述者进行，我们了解到，他回到过去以避免一场未指明的危机。如果他的使命不成功，英国未来的城市将面临有害的后果。这种叙事手段促使人们理解预计的危机现在已经到来。然而，通过复制某些浪漫主义特征，凯勒可能会强化他试图破坏的东西。
Focusing on Patrick Keiller's 2005 feature-length film, The City of the Future, this paper revisits the cinematic city. Keiller's film consists entirely of found footage, using intertitles to fashion a unified narrative from separate early actuality films. It involves a fictive journey around Britain, undertaken by an unseen narrator whom, we learn, has travelled back in time to avert an unspecified crisis. Deleterious consequences await Britain's future cities should his mission prove unsuccessful. This narrative device prompts the understanding that the projected crisis has now arrived. Yet by reproducing certain Romantic traits, Keiller risks reinforcing what he seeks to undermine.