Place, power, situation, and spectacle : a geography of film / edited by Stuart C. Aitken and Leo E. Zonn.

Other author Aitken, Stuart C.
Other author Zonn, Leo.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©1994.
Descriptionx, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
Place (Philosophy)
Motion picture locations.

Contents Geographic and cinematic theory : framing spaces and sequencing spectacles. Re-presenting the place pastiche / Stuart C. Aitken and Leo E. Zonn -- Third cinema and the Third World / Gerald M. Macdonald -- A mapping of cinematic places : icons, ideology, and the power of (mis)representation / Jeff Hopkins -- Making people and places. 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 / Martyn J. Bowden -- Outside of nothing : the place of community in The Outsiders / Denis Wood -- Sunshine and shadow : lighting and color in the depiction of cities on film / Larry Ford -- Of pelicans and men : symbolic landscapes, gender, and Australia's Storm Boy / Leo E. Zonn and Stuart C. Aitken -- The myth of heroism : man and desert in Lawrence of Arabia / Christina B. Kennedy -- Taking time with places. Filming Route 66 : documenting the Dust Bowl Highway / Arthur Krim.
Contents (Cont.) The city as cinematic space : modernism and place in Berlin, Symphony of a City / Wolfgang Natter -- We're going to do it right this time : cinematic representations of urban planning and the British new towns, 1939 to 1951 / John R. Gold and Stephen V. Ward.
Bibliography noteIncludes filmographies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 93048855
ISBN0847678253 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0847678261 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995 .P58 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold