Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film
Abstract: Couldn’t an exciting film be made from the map of Paris? From the unfolding of its various aspects in temporal succession? From the compression of a centuries-long movement of streets, boulevards, arcades, and squares into the space of half an hour? And does the flâneur do anything different? (Benjamin 1999: 83) A frame for cultural mappings, film is modern cartography. (Bruno 2002: 71)
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...In his attempt to map the emerging field of cinematic cartography, Les Roberts (2012) has formalized the different ways of envisioning the relationships between films and maps/mapping through five ‘overlapping clusters’ (see also Hallam and Roberts, 2014)....
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...In this special issue, Les Roberts provides a compelling illustration of the power of video for emotional mapping....
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...These clusters include ‘(1) maps and mapping in films; (2) mapping of film production and consumption; (3) movie mapping and cinematographic tourism; (4) cognitive and emotional mapping; and (5) film as spatial critique’ (Roberts, 2012, p. 70)....
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...…and ‘mental’ recurrently appeared in association with ‘cartography’, ‘maps’ and ‘mapping’, not only in the expected area of cognitive cartography, but also in other more surprising corners of the discipline such as literary cartography (Rossetto, 2013) and cinematic cartography (Roberts, 2012a)....
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...The idea that maps cannot be divorced from the practices, interests and understandings of their makers and users has already been explored (see, for instance, Turnbull, 1989), and can be seen as self-evident in disciplines such as anthropology or ethnography (Roberts, 2012b)....
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...Within the emerging field of interest on maps in movies (Conley, 2006; Roberts, 2012), a specific focus on various declination of Otherness should indeed be taken into consideration....
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...(Conley, 2006; Roberts, 2012), a specific focus on various declination of Otherness should indeed be taken into consideration....
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...…of wayfinding, and by being critically attentive to the ways in which film and video-making practices are also fundamentally spatial practices (Roberts, 2012b, p. 7), moving image cartographies can provoke insights into the anthropological and lived spaces of memory and trauma, and the hidden…...
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...…(1995; Lynch 1960), through to the wellentrenched, if increasingly diffuse practices that cluster under the label of ‘psychogeography’ (Cooper and Roberts, 2012, p. 91); the gravitational (or centripetal) pull of the street as a performative space of embodied practice has furnished a rich…...
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...…these stories is also to engage in a critical intervention in the spatial anthropology of media worlds and, by corollary, the ‘mapping cultures’ (Roberts, 2012a) and spatial practices that configure specific, and often contested narratives and place myths that constellate around affective…...
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...Press outrage ensued, resulting in the gallery being closed for 2 days, the artwork being vandalised and the artist receiving death threats (Knifton, 2010, p. 86; Roberts, 2012b, p. 39)....
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...6 For a survey of recent studies and critical perspectives that can be defined in terms of ‘cinematic cartography’ see Roberts (2012c)....
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