The Spatial Representation Of Body Image

Urbanization is suggested as a process where diverse and dramatic changes happen. Involved in moving images and engaged with body,’to be urbanized’ draws on the experience of find people themselves in the environment that promises them joy, adventure, growth and power-the transformation of people and their lifeworld. This dissertation explores the significant process of the Western cinema working in and through urban landscapes that depicted as modernized space during the mid-20th century. Drawing on both public and private sphere, the urban space is understood as a social product. Such space is conceived of zooming in to the body politic, gender roles, and the life strategies. Through the spatial practices, including release of freedom in the body movement, hierarchy of families in the dwelling environment, and even the spiritual mystique, we probe into the communicating process of moving images. All of these combine people’s living experience with the techniques, and their spiritual pursuit with places, which gives a hint of the crisis that what their lifeworld would imply in their modern experience. Working in the registered identities of the Western cinema during the mid-20th, the mixed narration is sensitive to the multiple rhythms of institutional conflicts from public and private places, and which, becomes part of our vision. Not merely the characters, but also the viewers are invited to move between realms of the daily experienced and imagined, the touched and perceived, and the real and symbolic, which offers an understanding of how the body images in city cinema made the significant presence of personal crisis and spiritual transformation in the urbanized space.