Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle A Geography of Film
by Aitken, Stuart C.; Zonn, Leo E.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1994-04-26
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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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