Form follows fiction. L'architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turistica

The article debates a double dimension of architecture: the "real" - how the buildings have been built and how they appear to us - and the "imaginary" - buildings considered as objects of "imaginary tales", cinema or television, where their use is mediated by the viewer...

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Main Author: Federico Boni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Ocula 2013-12-01
Series:Ocula
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Online Access:https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-14-BONI-Form-follows-fiction
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description The article debates a double dimension of architecture: the "real" - how the buildings have been built and how they appear to us - and the "imaginary" - buildings considered as objects of "imaginary tales", cinema or television, where their use is mediated by the viewer's gaze. Nevertheless, a viewer can become an user of the "real" architectural spaces reaching them in a kind of "pilgrimage." The core of the article is "film tourism" architecture, considered as a "double vision" (the media viewer and the on-site tourist) of the architectural object. This in turn addresses another "double gaze": that of sociology and that of semiotics. In particular, the analysis will focus on two Italian architectural objects, the Royal Palace and the Villa del Balbianello (Lake Como). These are two locations of the first two films of the new Star Wars trilogy, a postmodern fable allowing cinema tourists to articulate its sense intervening in one of its main morphological aspects, the architectural one
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spelling doaj.art-cbe87cd40c5347eaa0de2e2fd04dcb7e2022-12-22T00:53:09ZengAssociazione OculaOcula1724-78102013-12-0114110.12977/ocula21Form follows fiction. L'architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turisticaFederico Boni0Federico Boni Scienze Politiche-Università di Milano (IT)The article debates a double dimension of architecture: the "real" - how the buildings have been built and how they appear to us - and the "imaginary" - buildings considered as objects of "imaginary tales", cinema or television, where their use is mediated by the viewer's gaze. Nevertheless, a viewer can become an user of the "real" architectural spaces reaching them in a kind of "pilgrimage." The core of the article is "film tourism" architecture, considered as a "double vision" (the media viewer and the on-site tourist) of the architectural object. This in turn addresses another "double gaze": that of sociology and that of semiotics. In particular, the analysis will focus on two Italian architectural objects, the Royal Palace and the Villa del Balbianello (Lake Como). These are two locations of the first two films of the new Star Wars trilogy, a postmodern fable allowing cinema tourists to articulate its sense intervening in one of its main morphological aspects, the architectural onehttps://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-14-BONI-Form-follows-fictioncineturismoarchitetturamediapellegrinaggiogeografiacittà
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Form follows fiction. L'architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turistica
Ocula
cineturismo
architettura
media
pellegrinaggio
geografia
città
title Form follows fiction. L'architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turistica
title_full Form follows fiction. L'architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turistica
title_fullStr Form follows fiction. L'architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turistica
title_full_unstemmed Form follows fiction. L'architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turistica
title_short Form follows fiction. L'architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turistica
title_sort form follows fiction l architettura tra finzione cinematografica e pratica turistica
topic cineturismo
architettura
media
pellegrinaggio
geografia
città
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