Engaging Film Geographies of Mobility and Identity

by Cresswell, Tim; Dixon, Deborah; Beard, Paul; Brigham, Ann; Clarke, David B.; Crang, Mike; Curtis, Chris; Dahlman, Carl T.; Doel, Marcus A.; Dunn, Naomi; Gold, John R.; Kendall, Robert; Kirsch, Scott; Marston, Sallie A.; Natter, Wolfgang; Nicholson, Heathe

• ISBN13: 9780742508859
• ISBN10: 0742508854
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Engaging Film is a creative, interdisciplinary volume that explores the engagements among film, space, and identity and features a section on the use of films in the classroom as a critical pedagogical tool. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create different experiences of time and space. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Introduction: Engaging Film	p. 1
Engaging Mobility	p. 11
Rethinking the Observer: Film, Mobility, and the Construction of the Subject	p. 13
Spectacular Violence, Hypergeography, and the Question of Alienation in Pulp Fiction	p. 32
Telling Travelers' Tales: The World through Home Movies	p. 47
Engaging Identity	p. 67
Lacan: The Movie	p. 69
Chips Off the Old Ice Block: Nanook of the North and the Relocation of Cultural Identity	p. 94
Masculinity in Conflict: Geopolitics and Performativity in The Crying Game	p. 123
Smoke Signals: Locating Sherman Alexie's Narratives of American Indian Identity	p. 140
Pax Disney: The Annotated Diary of a Film Extra in India	p. 159
Modern Identities in Early German Film: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	p. 174
Engaging Pedagogy	p. 191
Practicing Film: The Autonomy of Images in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf	p. 193
The Real Thing? Contesting the Myth of Documentary Realism through Classroom Analysis of Films on Planning and Reconstruction	p. 209
On Location: Teaching the Western American Urban Landscape through Mi Vida Loca and Terminator 2	p. 226
"We Just Gotta Eliminate 'Em": On Whiteness and Film in Matewan, Avalon, and Bulworth	p. 246
Using Film as a Tool in Critical Pedagogy: Reflections on the Experience of Students and Lecturers	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 323
About the Contributors	p. 329
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