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Doing 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...
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Cinematic city of cultural coexistence? Perspectives on intercultural encounters in New York
The paper examines how U.S.-American movies stage and convey intercultural encounters. Drawing from the case study of cinematic New York City, it...
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Towards a multimethod approach for film geography: a case study of Los Angeles’ Nate Starkman Building
This paper introduces a multi-method approach for Film Geography that intertwines spatial analysis, cartography, textual analysis, discourse...
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Film as a pedagogical tool for geography during the pandemic induced virtual classes
Film has always been an important medium to disseminate social issues through imageries and imaginaries. The present paper examines the importance of...
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Film. Geography: stirring still remains
Inspired by the distinction that Gilles Deleuze drew between the ‘movement-image’ and the ‘time-image,’ the paper considers the ‘film’—the ‘skin’—of...
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The market for foreign cinema in contemporary Italy: a geography of film consumption
The article aims at studying the geographical variability of theatrical consumption and popularity of contemporary films imported in Italy since the...
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Strees in the streets. Gendered engagement with the urban space in Hindi films: a quantitative study
Cities represent intense battlefields where patriarchal norms are simultaneously defied and reinforced. In India, as elsewhere, the presence of strees ...
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Longing for a lost New York: place and televisual nostalgia in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
This essay contributes to work in media geography by bringing the geography of nostalgia into conversation with media nostalgia. Through an analysis...
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Feminist geopolitics, cinema, and the sensible encounter in American Sniper
This article employs a critical feminist geopolitical frame to analyze American Sniper , a film focused on US military intervention. This approach is...
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Belly of the World: Toxicity, Innocence, and Indigestibility in Plastic China
In 2018, on the eve of the Trump administration’s trade war against China, the ** administration inaugurated a ban on most plastic waste imports. Set...
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The flight of Icarus: on the geopolitical resonances of documentary film
This paper considers how documentary films have the potential to influence geopolitics. Develo** the concept of geopolitical resonances—defined...
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De-imaging New York: cognitive map** and the city symphony
Kevin Lynch’s Image of the City is central to film studies, where cognitive map** is often used to position screen depictions of cities in terms of...
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Narrative Formula Through the Geography of Transformers: Age of Extinction
In 2005 a screenwriting book was published showing what was already known: Most Hollywood movies are the same. What separated this book, Blake...
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Unsettling the Spatial in Identity Construction: Mediating Homecoming from Homeless Shanghai to Dystopian Dongbei in The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
Since China’s economic transformation of the 1990s, Dongbei has been suffering a slowing economy and decreasing population. Many Dongbei natives have...
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Looking at China from Abroad: intermediality as a tool for documentary
In 2020, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, travel to China and around the world was mostly suspended. In the face of such restrictions, the ‘Looking...
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Subcutaneous Stories from the Deviant City: Chemsex Congregations, Urban Explorations, and Occult Inclinations in the Art of Manchester Penetrated
Manchester Penetrated (@mcrpenetrated) is a multi-disciplinary transgressive queer art construct created and curated by the dual personalities of...
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From Abstract Thinking to Thinking Abstractions: Introducing Speculative Geographies
Writing at a time in which speculative ways of thinking appear to be undergoing a reprise across the social sciences and humanities – whether through...
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Interconnected challenges: an ethical discussion of climate change through the jellyfish metaphor
The pervasive global effects of climate change pose an imminent threat to individuals and nations around the world and highlight the fact that we are...
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Veridiction Training
In the Iraq War, a central challenge that the U.S. military faced was the ability to recognize those deemed to be foes. This chapter grapples with...
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Dead Malls and Right-Wing Populism
This chapter delves into the captivating intersection of decaying malls, the pervasive influence of zombie narratives, and the sociopolitical...