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Cartographic cinema / Tom Conley.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conley, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maps in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Cartography and cinema are what might be called locational machinery. Maps and movies tell their viewers where they are situated, what they are doing, and, to a strong degree, who they are. In this groundbreaking work, eminent scholar Tom Conley establishes the ideological power of maps in classic, contemporary, and avant-garde cinema to shape the imaginary and mediated relations we hold with the world. Cartographic Cinema examines the affinities of maps and movies through comparative theory and close analysis of films from the Silent era to the French New Wave to Hollywood blockbusters. In doing so, Conley reveals that most of the movies we see contain maps of various kinds and almost invariably constitute a projective apparatus similar to cartography. Conley convincingly argues that the very act of watching films, as well as cinema itself, is actually a form of cartography. Unlike its function in, an atlas, a map in a movie often causes the spectator to entertain broader questions - not only about cinema but also of the nature of space and being.
- Contents:
- Theory and Cartography
- Cinematic Taxonomy and Cartography
- Archive and Diagram
- Dislocation, Distance, Discretion
- Mental Mapping and Mobile Topography
- A Map in a Movie
- 1 Icarian Cinema: Paris qui dort 23
- A Site of Immaculate Origin
- A Film in Flux
- Two Spatial Stories
- Points of Comparison
- Liberty; A Vanishing Point
- 2 Jean Renoir: Cartographies in Deep Focus 40
- Boudu cartographe
- Tracking a Revolution
- La Grande illusion: Terrae incognitae
- Globes In and Out of Perspective
- 3 Maps and Theaters of Torture: Roma, citta aperta 65
- A Map Room
- Italy Wallpapered: A Map in an Apartment
- A Theater of Torture
- Wiped Surfaces
- 4 A Desperate Journey: From Casablanca to Indiana Jones 83
- Crashing In and Crashing Out
- A Map in a Montage
- Desperate Journey
- Camouflage
- A Map-Dissolve: Casablanca
- From Historical Geography to Melodrama
- A Place Named
- Indiana Jones
- 5 Juvenile Geographies: Les Mistons 106
- A Story Plotted into Film
- Correspondence and Rewriting
- Scenes of Writing
- As the Crow Flies
- Old Films and New Worlds: An Allegory
- 6 Michelin Tendre: Les Amants 125
- A Book and a Movie
- "Attention au depart"
- The Gleaner and the Grease Monkey
- Pleats and Folds
- The Michelin Map after La Carte du Tendre
- 7 Paris Underground: Les 400 coups 141
- The "Quarrel"
- Class Room and Map Room
- Mother and Mother France
- A Child's Map
- 8 A Roadmap for a Road Movie: Thelma and Louise 156
- Geography and Gentility
- Cinematic Diagrams
- A Map Room and a Baroque Motel
- Reflectors and Benders
- Orpheus Rewritten
- The Map in the Picture
- Women Plotted
- 9 Cronos, Cosmos, and Polis: La Haine 173
- Children of France
- Events Crosscut
- The Lower Depths
- The World Is Ours
- Graffiti and Glossolalia
- 10 Ptolemy, Gladiator, and Empire 191
- A Correspondence: Empire and Gladiator
- Ptolemy's Italia
- Map Effects and Special Effects
- Super Bowls
- Aftereffects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages 251-253.
- ISBN:
- 9780816643561
- 0816643563
- 9780816643578
- 0816643571
- OCLC:
- 73501932
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