Engaging film : geographies of mobility and identity / edited by Tim Cresswell and Deborah Dixon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cresswell, Tim, editor.

Dixon, Deborah, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engaging Film is a creative, interdisciplinary volume that explores the engagements among film, space, and identity and features a section on the use of films in the classroom as a critical pedagogical tool. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create different experiences of time and space.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Engaging FilmTim Cresswell and Deborah Dixon; Part I: Engaging Mobility; 2 Rethinking the Observer: Film, Mobility, and the Construction of the Subject Mike Crang; 3 Spectacular Violence , Hypergeography, and the Question of Alienation in Pulp Fiction Scott Kirsch; 4 Telling Travelers' Tales: The World through Home Movies Heather Norris Nicholson; Part II: Engaging Identity; 5 Lacan: The Movie Marcus A. Doel and David B. Clarke

6 Chips off the Old Ice Block: Nanook of the North and the Relocation of Cultural Identity Laurel Smith7 Masculinity in Conflict: Geopolitics and Performativity in The Crying Game Carl Dahlman; 8 Smoke Signals: Locating Sherman Alexie's Narratives of American Indian Identity Leo Zonn and Dick Willchell; 9 Pax Disney: The Annotated Diary of a Film Extra in India Paul Robbins; 10 Modern Identities in Early German Film: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Christiane Schönfeld; Part Ill : Engaging Pedagogy; 11 Practicing Film: The Autonomy of Images in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Ulf Strohmayer

12 The Real Thing? Contesting the Myth of Documentary Realism through Classroom Analysis of Films on Planning and Reconstruction John R. Gold13 On Location: Teaching the Western American Urban Landscape through Mi Vida Loca and Terminator 2 Ann Brigham and Sallie A. Marston; 14 ""We Just Gotta Eliminate 'Em"": On Whiteness and Film in Matewan, Avalon, and Bulworth Wolfgang Natter; 15 Using Film as a Tool in Critical Pedagogy: Reflections on the Experience of Students and Lecturers Chad Staddon, Phil Taylor, Paul Beard, Robert Kendall, Naomi Dunn, Chris Curtis, and Steve Vreithoff

BibliographyIndex; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-8186-186-5

0-7425-7835-6

1-299-85000-6

OCLC:

858230623