Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 368
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅛
978-0-7425-0884-2 • Hardback • March 2002 • $177.00 • (£137.00)
978-0-7425-0885-9 • Paperback • March 2002 • $77.00 • (£59.00)
978-0-7425-7835-7 • eBook • March 2002 • $73.00 • (£56.00)
Tim Cresswell and Deborah Dixon both teach in the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Engaging Film
Part 2 Engaging Mobility
Chapter 4 Rethinking the Observer: Film, Mobility, and the Construction of the Subject
Chapter 5 Spectacular Violence, Hypergeography, and the Question of Alienation in Pulp Fiction
Chapter 6 Telling Travelers' Tales: The World through Home Movies
Part 7 Engaging Identity
Chapter 9 Lacan: The Movie
Chapter 10 Chips off the Old Ice Block: Nanook of the North and the Relocation of Cultural Identity
Chapter 11 Masculinity in Conflict: Geopolitics and Performativity in The Crying Game
Chapter 12 Smoke Signals: Locating Sherman Alexie's Narratives of American Indian Identity
Chapter 13 Pax Disney: The Annotated Diary of a Film Extra in India
Chapter 14 Modern Identities in Early German Film: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Part 15 Engaging Pedagogy
Chapter 17 Practicing Film: The Autonomy of Images in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Chapter 18 The Real Thing? Contesting the Myth of Documentary Realism through Classroom Analysis of FIlms on Planning and Reconstruction
Chapter 19 On Location: Teaching the Western American Urban Landscape through Mi Vida Loca and Terminator 2
Chapter 20 "We Just Gotta Eliminate 'Em": On Whiteness and Film in Matewan, Avalon, and Bulworth
Chapter 21 Using Film as a Tool in Critical Pedagogy: Reflections on the Experience of Students and Lecturers
This is a remarkable book. It is a very readable volume of essays that substantiates the importance of film study in geography and geographic study of film.
— Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Singularly smart, these essays excavate the dense spatialities—both fixed and destabilized—at work in the moving image. Cresswell and Dixon have compiled what is surely a landmark volume in cultural geography.
— John Paul Jones III, University of Kentucky