Taking place : location and the moving image / John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rhodes, John David, 1969-

Gorfinkel, Elena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Setting and scenery.

Motion pictures.

Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures.

Space in motion pictures.

Cities and towns in motion pictures.

Motion picture locations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking Place argues that the relation between geographical location and the moving image is fundamental and that place grounds our experience of film and media. Its original essays analyze film, television, video, and installation art from diverse national and transnational contexts to rethink both the study of moving images and the theorization of place. Through its unprecedented-and at times even obsessive- attention to actual places, this volume traces the tensions between the global and the local, the universal and the particular, that inhere in contemporary debates on global cinema, telev

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Matter of Places; Part I. Cinematic Style and the Places of Modernity; 1. From Venice to the Valley: California Slapstick and the Keaton Comedy Short; 2. The Eclipse of Place: Rome's EUR from Rossellini to Antonioni; 3. Tales of Times Square: Sexploitation's Secret History of Place; 4. Derek Jarman in the Docklands: The Last of England and Thatcher's London; Part II. Place as Index of Cinema; 5. The Cinecittà Refugee Camp, 1944-50; 6. Right Here in Mason City: The Music Man and Small-Town Nostalgia

7. When the Set Becomes Permanent: The Spatial Reconfiguration of Hollywood North8. The Last Place on Earth? Allegories of Deplacialization in Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie; Part III. Geopolitical Displacements; 9. The Nonplace of Argento: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Roman Urban History; 10. The Placement of Shadows: What's Inside William Kentridge's Black Box/Chambre Noire?; 11. Into the "Imaginary" and "Real" Place: Stan Douglas's Site-Specific Film and Video Projection; 12. Doing Away with Words: Synaesthetic Dislocations in Okinawa and Hong Kong; Part IV. (Not) Being There

13. Moving through Images 14. Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the Films of George Romero; 15. On the Grounds of Television; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4620-5

0-8166-7834-0

OCLC:

767953048