Locating the Moving Image New Approaches to Film and Place [Hardcover]

Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial enterprise, as a leisure activity, and as modes of expression and communication. Their research charts new pathways in mapping the relationship between film production and local film practices, theatrical exhibition circuits and cinema going, creating new forms of spatial anthropology. Topics include cinematic practices in rural and urban communities, development of cinema by amateur filmmakers, and use of GIS in mapping the spatial development of film production and cinema going as social practices.

Julia Hallam and Les Roberts teach at the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. Hallam and Roberts have worked together on two projects exploring the relationship between film and the city, City in Film: Liverpool's Urban Landscape and the Moving Image and Mapping the City in Film: A Geo-Historical Analysis.

1. Film and Spatiality: Outline of a New Empiricism
Les Roberts and Julia Hallam
2. Getting to Going to the Show
Robert C. Allen
3. Space, Place and the Female Film Exhibitor: The Transformation of Cinema in Small Town New Hampshire during the 1910s
Jeffrey Klenotic
4. Mapping Film Exhibition in Flanders (1920-1990): A Diachronic Analysis of Cinema Culture Combined with Demographic and Geographic Data
Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers
5. Mapping the Ill-disciplined? Spatial Analyses and Historical Change in the Post-War Film Industry
Deb Verhoeven and Colin Arrowsmith
6. Mapping Film Audiences in Multicultural Canada: Examples from the Cybercartographic Atlas of Canadian Cinema
S?bastien Caquard, Daniel Naud, and Benjamin Wright
7. The Geography of Film Production in Italy: a Spatial Analysis Using GIS
Eliza Ravazzoli
8. Mapping the City Film 1930-1980
Julia Hallam
9. Retracing the Local: Amateur Cine l