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Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film
Les Roberts
- pp 68-84
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A frame for cultural mappings, film is modern cartography as discussed by the authors, and does the flâneur do anything different from the map of Paris? But it is difficult to make a movie from a map of the city.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)read more
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The Bulger Case: A Spatial Story
TL;DR: It is argued that, by adopting practices of wayfinding, and by being critically attentive to the ways in which film and video-making practices are also spatial practices, moving image cartographies can provide insights into lived and embedded spaces of memory, and the hidden or muted spatial stories to which they play host.
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Navigating the ‘archive city’ Digital spatial humanities and archival film practice
TL;DR: The archive city as discussed by the authors is a conceptualization of archival space that straddles the material and symbolic city and which invites reflection on the ways cultural geographies of memory are enfolded across the multi-sited and multilayered spaces of everyday urban practice.
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Reimagining the colonial wilderness: ‘Africa’, imperialism and the geographical legerdemain of the Vorrh:
TL;DR: This paper used the African continent as a palimpsest to construct fantastical tales, from Sir John Mandeville to Joseph Conrad, from Africa's blank spaces on the t...
Storytelling and Self in Public Broadcast: A Visual Ethnography of Rocky Mountain PBS
TL;DR: In this article, the history of RMPBS and observations of production activities performed by the creators of the show Colorado Memories are discussed, along with six topics complementary to the filmed narratives: acquiring identity, learning storytelling, professional goals, discomfort within storytelling, favorite stories, and future storytelling goals.
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Asymmetries : Iterative Cinematic Cartographies
TL;DR: The Asymmetries project as mentioned in this paper explores various forms of contemporary film practices in order to explore and re-imagine city life beyond the confines of teleological conceptions, in particular, the writing and its iterative explorations relates to cinema aesthetics and its political confrontation with the mono-focal conception of cinema and its projection norms.
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