Cinéma et sens de la ville : la ville idéelle
It is mainly though movies that we get to know and share cities’ realities, even those where we live. Through movies, we discover more cities than we will ever visit. We know cities we had never seen. We learn to discover cities we already knew. We have memories of non-existing cities.  Either as spectators or creators, cities exist first in our imagination. To perceive, represent and create are complementary acts calling for common functions. Every perception is conditioned by knowledge and memory and depends from culture. In order to communicate, representations must be aware of the target audiences’ mechanisms and memory codes. Movie making deals not only with the reproduction. It creates and has learned to use those codes and mechanisms, as in the case of city representation. As for urban planners and other related professionals, the study of cinema can open new scientific fields dealing with representation and perception as means to share city’s reality. City and movies should then be seen as a spectacle (show) in its hermeneutical meaning, a spectacle (show) from which the emergence of a paradigm becomes possible. In other words, the basic belief system or worldview that guides the investigator, not only in choices of methods but in ontologically and episemologically fundamental ways. (Guba & Lincoln, 1994). We propose to describe, to shape and to show the conceptual functions of such paradigm; we call it the ideel city.
Perception Image City Movies Representation Perception Phenomenology Hermeneutics Ideel Image Cine Ideel