Collection

Film Geography

Film geography as a subdiscipline of cultural and media geography is a long-established field of research that since its emergence more than twenty years ago has diversified into a variety of perspectives. Nowadays, a critical perspective on film is central, which no longer considers the medium merely as a text, but rather as a social practice—a perspective that continues to focus not solely on the meaning of representations, but on what representations do and how they do it. This special issue provides an overview of current trends in the field, and in addition to the established film-as-text perspective, it examines the burgeoning research in cinematic cartography, film industry geographies, and videography/documentaries.

Editors

  • Chris Lukinbeal

    Chris Lukinbeal is the founding Director of Geographic Information Systems Technology Programs at the University of Arizona and an Professor of the School of Geography Development and Environment. He earned his PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. Chris is a cultural geography and cartographer with research interests in representation, visualization, media, and cinema.

  • Elisabeth Sommerlad

    Elisabeth Sommerlad supports the team Human Geograhy as postdoc researcher. She studied Geography, Communication and Sociology in Mainz and graduated in 2012 with a diploma thesis on "Marrakech in feature film". In 2019 she completed her doctorate with a dissertation on the cinematic staging of intercultural encounters with a focus on US-American feature films set in New York City. At the interface of media culture and social geography, her current research focuses on the interrelationships of media and social phenomena in a spatial perspective.

Articles (15 in this collection)

  1. Doing film geography

    Authors

    • Chris Lukinbeal
    • Elisabeth Sommerlad
    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 27 April 2022
    • Pages: 1 - 9