This book uniquely bridges the conceptual gap between the history of geographic, cartographic thought, and film theory with the technological and cultural shifts that shaped the emergence of cameras and cinema.
Adorned with illustrative figures, examples, and case studies throughout, the book explores how cinema lends itself to cartography and, in turn, how cartography relates to both the individual and collective experience of cinema. By using cartography to understand space and scale in film, the book moves away from textual analysis or representation analysis to focus on the locational attribution of the sites where the cinematic landscape is being produced. It contends that viewers of moving images are active players in a complex network of cultural and mental geographies.
This volume is essential reading for students, scholars, and academics of cinematography, human, cultural, and social geography, cartography, and media studies, as well as those interested in these areas more generally.
1. Cinematic Cartography
Introduction
Current Trends in Cinematic Cartography
Forthcoming Book Attractions
2. The Gaze from Above and Below
Introduction
Cartographic Paradox
Cartographic Anxiety
Geography, Chorology, Topography
Perspectivalism
Projectionism
The God’s Eye Trick
Dangerous Scopic Regimes and the Paradox of Vision
From Animated Photography to Narrative Cinema
Montage and Bricolage
Mobilizing the Cartographic Paradox
Conclusion
Note
3. Scale
Scalar Debates
Etymology of Scale
Scale as Mentifact
Scale as Sociofact
Metrum
Treaty of the Meter
Conclusion
Notes
4. Cartographic Scale
Introduction
Representative and Expressive Analogy
Grid as Skin
Removal of the Viewing Subject
Scale as Disembodiment
Scale as Dissociation and Alienation
Difference as Separation/Difference as Multiplicity
Conclusion
5. Cinematic Scale
Introduction
Cinematic Scale
Long Shot
Close-Up
Cinema’s Shock Effect
The Mise en Abyme
Conclusion
6. Topographic Cinema of Hombre
Introduction
Cinema as Topography
Topographical Image Facts
Topography of Hombre the Novel
Topography of Hombre the Film
Hombre the Topographer
The Topographies of Race
Conclusion
7. Chorological Cinema of San Diego
Introduction
Cinematic Chorology as Incorporation or Work
Cinematic Chorology as Inscribed on Maps
Case Study of a Television Show
Case Study in Cinematic Land Use Mapping
Conclusions
8. Geographic Cinema of 500 Days of Summer
Introduction
Touring the Architectonics of Cinematic Space
Film Production Data
Cartographic Ground Truthing
Cinematic Ground Truthing
Indexing Spatially, Temporally, and via Media
Indexing Cinema Socially and Spatially
Mapping 500 Days of Summer
A Geovisualization of 500 Days of Summer
Conclusion
9. Geospatial Cinema of Old Tucson Studios
Introduction
Colombia Pictures Art Department’s Map
3d Precision Geospatial Modelling
The 1995 Fire and Mapping the Aftermath
Putting Motion Pictures in their “Place”
Conclusion
10. Conclusion
Conclusion
References
Biography
Chris Lukinbeal is a professor at the School of Geography Development and Environment and founding director of Geographic Information Systems Technology Programs at the University of Arizona, USA.
