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Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film

01 Jan 2012-pp 68-84
TL;DR: 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)
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TL;DR: The potential of maps as narratives and the importance of connecting the map with the complete mapping process through narratives is addressed in this paper, which is approached from a map-making perspective, as well as the mixing of personal and global scales, real and fictional places, dream and reality, joy and pain.
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the multiple ways of envisioning the relationships between maps and narratives. This is approached from a map making perspective. Throughout the process of editing this special issue, we have identified two main types of relationships. Firstly, maps have been used to represent the spatio-temporal structures of stories and their relationships with places. Oral, written and audio-visual stories have been mapped extensively. They raise some common cartographic challenges, such as improving the spatial expression of time, emotions, ambiguity, connotation, as well as the mixing of personal and global scales, real and fictional places, dream and reality, joy and pain. Secondly, the potential of maps as narratives and the importance of connecting the map with the complete mapping process through narratives is addressed. Although the potential of maps to tell stories has already been widely acknowledged, we emphasize the increasing recognition of the importance of develo...

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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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TL;DR: In this article, the historical division between empiricist and critical approaches in cartography has shifted recently, and the authors focus on cognitive cartography in order to examine how this historical division has shifted.
Abstract: In this third report, I focus on cognitive cartography in order to examine how the historical division between empiricist and critical approaches in cartography has shifted recently. I do so by bui...

58 citations


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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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TL;DR: The Humanities Special Issue on Deep Mapping as mentioned in this paper explores the broad-ranging nature of perspectives and practices that fall within the "undisciplined" interdisciplinary domain of spatial humanities and argues that what deep mapping "is" cannot be reduced to the otherwise a-spatial and a-temporal fixity of the "deep map".
Abstract: This paper provides an introduction to the Humanities Special Issue on “Deep Mapping”. It sets out the rationale for the collection and explores the broad-ranging nature of perspectives and practices that fall within the “undisciplined” interdisciplinary domain of spatial humanities. Sketching a cross-current of ideas that have begun to coalesce around the concept of “deep mapping”, the paper argues that rather than attempting to outline a set of defining characteristics and “deep” cartographic features, a more instructive approach is to pay closer attention to the multivalent ways deep mapping is performatively put to work. Casting a critical and reflexive gaze over the developing discourse of deep mapping, it is argued that what deep mapping “is” cannot be reduced to the otherwise a-spatial and a-temporal fixity of the “deep map”. In this respect, as an undisciplined survey of this increasing expansive field of study and practice, the paper explores the ways in which deep mapping can engage broader discussion around questions of spatial anthropology.

34 citations

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TL;DR: This article explored the connection between Cartography and Otherness, and intersected map and visual studies with the question of racial/ethnic identity, with the aim of making arguments through images, a visual/verbal text is staged to reflect on the map-Other connection in past and present times.
Abstract: This article explores the connection between Cartography and Otherness, and intersects map and visual studies with the question of racial/ethnic identity. With the aim of making arguments through images, a visual/verbal text is staged to reflect on the ‘Map-Other’ connection in past and present times. Inspired by the epistemological turn from representation towards practice currently experienced within map theory, the article interrogates the various creative ways in which art, advertising, public communication and related fields enable post-representational ways of portraying maps. Public visual images of cartography can be read not only as an exposure of the firm, ideological meaning of maps, but also as illustrations of how maps work as shared, embodied and empowering objects. The treatment of maps as socialised, performed and relational thereby results in an involvement of Others as protagonists rather than subjects.

15 citations


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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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TL;DR: The authors examined the use of landscape in the Norwegian series Occupied (2015-2020) and Nobel (2016) and examined the ways in which cityscapes and panoramas of the natural environment are employed as affective, as well as aesthetic tools for storytelling within a geopolitically inflected framework.
Abstract: Abstract Focusing on the use of landscape in the Norwegian series Occupied (2015–2020) and Nobel (2016), this article examines the ways in which cityscapes and panoramas of the natural environment are employed as affective, as well as aesthetic tools for storytelling within a geopolitically inflected framework. Drawing on literature from popular geopolitics, geocriticism, and visual politics, my analysis interrogates the ways in which geopolitical codes and visions manifest via televisual fiction, reflecting a variety of insecurities associated with Norway's current position in world affairs, as well as contemporary challenges to Norwegian national identity. This article also discusses how these two series have adapted key geovisual elements of the what I deem the “near Nordic Noir” style to focus more explicitly on geopolitical questions, linking Occupied and Nobel to other geopolitically inflected series from Nordic Europe.

12 citations


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  • ...While the study of landscape in television series in still in its ascendancy, the importance of landscape in cinema is well established (cf. DeLue & Elkins, 2008; Harper & Rayner, 2010; Lefebvre, 2007b; Mitchell, 2002; Roberts, 2012b)....

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Book
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a closer look at this new phenomenon of "cinematic tourism", combining theory with case studies drawn from four continents: America, Europe, Asia and Australasia.
Abstract: Recent years have seen a radical transformation of conventional tourist marketing and experience. The use of exotic locations in Hollywood films has allowed global audiences to enjoy distant places. Simultaneously, Hollywood screening of potential 'tourist paradises' has generated new tourist industries around the world. This book takes a closer look at this new phenomenon of 'cinematic tourism', combining theory with case studies drawn from four continents: America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. The author explores audiences' perceptions of film and their covert relationship with tourist advertising campaigns, alongside the nature of newly-born tourist industries and the reaction of native populations and nation-states faced with the commodification of their histories, identities and environments.

45 citations

Book
28 Nov 2010
TL;DR: The idea of "flirting" with space is central to this book as mentioned in this paper, and it is conceptualised as being in constant flux as we make our way through various contexts in our daily lives and is considered in relation to encounters with complexities and flows of material culture.
Abstract: The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book Space is conceptualised as being in constant flux as we make our way through various contexts in our daily lives, and is considered in relation to encounters with complexities and flows of material culture This book focuses on journeys, which are perceived as dynamic processes of contemporary life and its spaces, and how creativity happens in the inter-relations of space and journeys encourage creativity Unravelled through a range of empirical case studies of journeys through and encountered with space, this book builds new critical syntheses of the intertwining of space and life Based on investigations undertaken by the author over the past 20 years, it explores the mundane and the exotic, the 'lay' and the 'artistic', combining and inter-relating them in a diversity of time and expression, fleeting and surviving Such investigations, using both visual and non-visual material, include examinations of allotment holding, the work of artists, caravanning and tourism, photography and parish maps The analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects are linked together and build on each other to create a fascinating and original view of humanity's interaction with space Included are fresh discussions of belonging, disorientation and the working of identity and play The notion of 'gentle politics' is introduced

43 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examined the role of nostalgia within situationist theory and politics and found that nostalgia had both a productive and a disruptive place in situationist thought; that it enabled some of their key insights yet also introduced incoherence and tensions into their political project.
Abstract: This article examines the role of nostalgia within situationist theory and politics. After introducing the Situationist International and the need to rethink the politics of nostalgia, it is shown that nostalgia had both a productive and a disruptive place in situationist thought; that it enabled some of their key insights yet also introduced incoherence and tensions into their political project. This productive and disruptive relationship is explored through two of the situationists' main concerns: the idea of the spectacle and the critique of urbanism.

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TL;DR: The relationship between film and the city is increasingly recognised as the archetypical ground for examining visual and sensory experience, form and style, perception, cognition and the meaning of the filmic image and filmic text as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The relationship between film and the city is increasingly recognised as the archetypical ground for examining visual and sensory experience, form and style, perception, cognition and the meaning of the filmic image and filmic text. Liverpool, widely regarded at the end of the nineteenth century as the ‘gateway to the British empire’, provides an exemplary instance of a city in which moving image culture has played an ongoing role in shaping perceptions of its urban environment. With cities such as New York and Philadelphia often taken as standard examples of ‘film cities’ in the North American context, Liverpool, the first UK city to create a film office to promote the city as a location, is an excellent example of how moving image culture has contributed to changing the identity of a city from post-industrial wasteland to post-modern playground. This paper explores how an approach informed by interdisciplinary perspectives can expand understandings of the relationship between moving image environments a...

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Book
21 Feb 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, the Archive City as Urban Spectacle is described as a cityscape with panoramas and the mobile gaze, and movie-mapping is used to map the archive city.
Abstract: List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Cinematic Geography: Mobilizing the Archive City 2. An Incriminated Medium? The City as Urban Spectacle 3. Cityscapes: Panoramas and the Mobile Gaze 4. City Limits: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity 5. Movie-mapping: Cinematographic Tourism and Place-marketing 6. World in One City: Travel, Globalization and Placeless Space 7. Cinematic Cartography: Mapping the Archive City Afterword References Index

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  • ...The role of film and moving images in the navigation of these spaces is to function as an urban representational ‘prism’: a point of critical convergence from which to explore the wider geohistorical constellations that have shaped the material and symbolic fabric of the ‘archive city’ (Roberts 2012)....

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