Cinematic Cartography

Scale, Analysis, Topography
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-42879-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 461 g

Reihe: Routledge Spatial Humanities Series

This book uniquely bridges the conceptual gap between the history of geographic, cartographic thought, and film theory with the technological and cultural shifts that shaped the emergence of cameras and cinema.

Adorned with illustrative figures, examples, and case studies throughout, the book explores how cinema lends itself to cartography and, in turn, how cartography relates to both the individual and collective experience of cinema. By using cartography to understand space and scale in film, the book moves away from textual analysis or representation analysis to focus on the locational attribution of the sites where the cinematic landscape is being produced. It contends that viewers of moving images are active players in a complex network of cultural and mental geographies.

This volume is essential reading for students, scholars, and academics of cinematography, human, cultural, and social geography, cartography, and media studies, as well as those interested in these areas more generally.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lukinbeal, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Cinematic Cartography. 2. The Gaze from Above and Below. 3. Scale. 4. Cartographic Scale. 5. Cinematic Scale. 6. Topographic Cinema of Hombre. 7. Chorological Cinema of San Diego. 8. Geographic Cinema of 500 Days of Summer. 9. Geospatial Cinema of Old Tucson Studios. 10. Conclusion. References.

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Lukinbeal is a professor at the School of Geography Development and Environment and founding director of Geographic Information Systems Technology Programs at the University of Arizona, USA.