{"id":1117,"date":"2011-09-28T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/09\/28\/american-university-professor-profiles-david-pike\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:01:00","slug":"american-university-professor-profiles-david-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/09\/28\/american-university-professor-profiles-david-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"American University Professor Profiles: David Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GVqpEKA0tpE\/ToPikyuXfqI\/AAAAAAAAAjI\/YJ_2kPUCt-A\/s1600\/Pike%2Bin%2Btunnel300x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 300px;height: 300px\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GVqpEKA0tpE\/ToPikyuXfqI\/AAAAAAAAAjI\/YJ_2kPUCt-A\/s400\/Pike%2Bin%2Btunnel300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657614678626893474\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span>American University Library and the Academic Multimedia Services (AMS) team believe that the faculty at AU possess a wide range of scholarly and practical contributions for the academic and professional world. With <i>Professor Profiles <\/i>we want to showcase the unique teaching styles, fascinating research and interesting publications by AU professors.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span><br \/>Through these <i>Professor Profiles<\/i> AMS hopes that prospective students and other members of the wider academic community will be compelled to learn more about what AU\u2019s faculty have to offer. The Library and AMS wish for everyone to know more about AU\u2019s faculty and we strive to support professors at every step possible. <\/span><span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/cas\/faculty\/dpike.cfm\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:100%\">DAVID PIKE<\/span><\/a><br \/><\/span><span><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                     MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                                                   &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;  &lt;![endif]--><span>How do you think of space as a film maker, or a writer? Do you see space as separate from life and characters or are they apart of each other? For Professor David Pike space, and more specifically subterranean space, is just as important as any character or action and is extremely influential with how characters react to events. And this is the same with real life as it is with fiction. Author of <i>Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800\u20132001 <\/i>and <i>Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London 1800\u20131945<\/i>; Professor Pike uses the modern underworld to explore and analyze how society uses and reacts to the spaces it occupies and controls, as well as how these often subterranean worlds are used in literature and film.<br \/> <\/span><br \/><span><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American University Library and the Academic Multimedia Services (AMS) team believe that the faculty at AU possess a wide range of scholarly and practical contributions for the academic and professional world. With Professor Profiles we want to showcase the unique teaching styles, fascinating research and interesting publications by AU professors. 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