Reviews"This collection breaks new ground for cinema history. Hallam and Roberts have gathered some of the foremost scholars who are mapping spatial histories of the moving image and the geographies of film production, distribution and consumption. Introducing new interdisciplinary methods and asking new questions, Locating the Moving Image takes film studies into new territory, beyond the boundaries of the text and its interpretation, towards an understanding of the relationship between culture, spatiality and place." --Richard Maltby, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University--Richard Maltby, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University, Introduces some of the concrete ways practical mapping and GIS technologies help elaborate historical film projects.... The scope of many of these projects is breathtaking in scale.... Others embrace ethnographic methods that tell poignant individual stories. Still others deftly merge qualitative and quantitative approaches.... As a whole, the volume brings together disparate fields of study in interesting ways., "Introduces some of the concrete ways practical mapping and GIS technologies help elaborate historical film projects. . . . The scope of many of these projects is breathtaking in scale. . . . Others embrace ethnographic methods that tell poignant individual stories. Still others deftly merge qualitative and quantitative approaches. . . . As a whole, the volume brings together disparate fields of study in interesting ways."--James Craine, California State University, Northridge "This collection breaks new ground for cinema history. Hallam and Roberts have gathered some of the foremost scholars who are mapping spatial histories of the moving image and the geographies of film production, distribution and consumption. Introducing new interdisciplinary methods and asking new questions, Locating the Moving Image takes film studies into new territory, beyond the boundaries of the text and its interpretation, towards an understanding of the relationship between culture, spatiality and place."--Richard Maltby, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University, "This volume does a good job of introducing some of the concrete ways practical mapping and GIS technologies help elaborate historical film projects.... The scope of many of these projects is breathtaking in scale, encompassing national databases over extended time periods. Others embrace ethnographic methods that tell poignant individual stories. Still others deftly merge qualitative and quantitative approaches.... As a whole, the volume brings together disparate fields of study in interesting ways." -James Craine, California State University, Northridge, "Introduces some of the concrete ways practical mapping and GIS technologies help elaborate historical film projects.... The scope of many of these projects is breathtaking in scale.... Others embrace ethnographic methods that tell poignant individual stories. Still others deftly merge qualitative and quantitative approaches.... As a whole, the volume brings together disparate fields of study in interesting ways." --James Craine, California State University, Northridge, "Introduces some of the concrete ways practical mapping and GIS technologies help elaborate historical film projects.... The scope of many of these projects is breathtaking in scale.... Others embrace ethnographic methods that tell poignant individual stories. Still others deftly merge qualitative and quantitative approaches.... As a whole, the volume brings together disparate fields of study in interesting ways." -James Craine, California State University, Northridge, "This collection breaks new ground for cinema history. Hallam and Roberts have gathered some of the foremost scholars who are mapping spatial histories of the moving image and the geographies of film production, distribution and consumption. Introducing new interdisciplinary methods and asking new questions, Locating the Moving Image takes film studies into new territory, beyond the boundaries of the text and its interpretation, towards an understanding of the relationship between culture, spatiality and place." -Richard Maltby, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal791.43/62
Table Of Content1. Film and Spatiality: Outline of a New Empiricism Les Roberts and Julia Hallam 2. Getting to "Going to the Show" Robert C. Allen 3. Space, Place and the Female Film Exhibitor: The Transformation of Cinema in Small Town New Hampshire during the 1910s Jeffrey Klenotic 4. Mapping Film Exhibition in Flanders (1920-1990): A Diachronic Analysis of Cinema Culture Combined with Demographic and Geographic Data Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers 5. Mapping the Ill-disciplined? Spatial Analyses and Historical Change in the Post-War Film Industry Deb Verhoeven and Colin Arrowsmith 6. Mapping Film Audiences in Multicultural Canada: Examples from the Cybercartographic Atlas of Canadian Cinema Sébastien Caquard, Daniel Naud, and Benjamin Wright 7. The Geography of Film Production in Italy: a Spatial Analysis Using GIS Eliza Ravazzoli 8. Mapping the "City" Film 1930-1980 Julia Hallam 9. Retracing the Local: Amateur Cine Culture and Oral Histories Ryan Shand 10. Beyond the Boundary: Vernacular Mapping and the Sharing of Historical Authority Kate Bowles 11. Afterword: Towards a Spatial History of the Moving-Image Julia Hallam and Les Roberts Index
SynopsisTopics include cinematic practices in rural and urban communities, development of cinema by amateur filmmakers, and use of GIS in mapping the spatial development of film production and cinema going as social practices., Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial enterprise, as a leisure activity, and as modes of expression and communication. Their research charts new pathways in mapping the relationship between film production and local film practices, theatrical exhibition circuits and cinema going, creating new forms of spatial anthropology. Topics include cinematic practices in rural and urban communities, development of cinema by amateur filmmakers, and use of GIS in mapping the spatial development of film production and cinema going as social practices.
LC Classification NumberPN1995.L56 2013