Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle A Geography of Film

by Aitken, Stuart C.; Zonn, Leo E.

• ISBN13: 9780847678266
• ISBN10: 0847678261
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-29
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Nowhere has such a fine collection of essays argued so forcefully on the power of film to shape and mediate human experiences of place and environment.-Kenneth E. Foote, The University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

Preface
Re-Presenting the Place Pastiche	p. 3
Third Cinema and the Third World	p. 27
Mapping of Cinematic Places: Icons, Ideology, and the Power of (Mis)representation	p. 47
Jerusalem, Dover Beach, and Kings Cross: Imagined Places as Metaphors of the British Class Struggle in Chariots of Fire and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner	p. 69
Outside of Nothing: The Place of Community in The Outsiders	p. 101
Sunshine and Shadow: Lighting and Color in the Depiction of Cities on Film	p. 119
Of Pelicans and Men: Symbolic Landscales, Gender, and Australia's Storm Boy	p. 137
The Myth of Heroism: Man and Desert in Lawrence of Arabia	p. 161
Filming Route 66: Documenting the Dust Bowl Highway	p. 183
The City as Cinematic Space: Modernism and Place in Berlin, Symphony of a City	p. 203
We're Going to Do It Right This Time: Cinematic Representations of Urban Planning and the British New Towns, 1939 to 1951	p. 229
Subject Index	p. 259
Author Index	p. 263
Film Index	p. 265
About the Contributors	p. 267
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