Taking place
Subtitle: location and the moving image
By: John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel [editors]
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780816665167; 9780816665174
Subjects: Motion pictures; Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures; Setting and scenery; Motion picture locations; Space in motion pictures; Cities and towns in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibligoraphical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the matter of places / Elena Gorfinkel and John David Rhodes; title: Cinematic style and the places of modernity. From Venice to the Valley : California slapstick and the Keaton comedy short / Charles Wolfe; title: The eclipse of place : Rome's EUR, from Rossellini to Antonioni / John David Rhodes; title: Tales of Times Square : sexploitation's secret history of place / Elena Gorfinkel; title: Derek Jarman in the Docklands : the last of England and Thatcher's London / Mark W. Turner; title: Place as index of cinema. The Cinecittø Refugee Camp 1944-1950 / Noa Steimatsky; title: Right here in Mason City : The music man and small town nostalgia / Linda A. Robinson; title: When the set becomes permanent : the spatial re-configuration of Hollywood North / Aurora Wallace; title: The last place on Earth? allegories of deplacialization in Dennis Hopper's The last movie / Ara Osterweil; title: Geopolitical displacements. The non-place of Argento : The bird with the crystal plumage and Roman urban history / Michael Siegel; title: The placement of shadows : what's inside William Kentridge's Black box/Chambre Noire? / Frances Guerin; title: Into the "imaginary" and "real" place : Stan Douglas's site-specific film and video projection / Ji-Hoon Kim; title: Doing away with words : synaesthetic dislocations in Okinawa and Hong Kong / Rosalind Galt; title: (Not) being there. Moving through images / Brian Price; title: Living dead spaces : the desire for the local in the films of George Romero / Hugh S. Manon; title: On the grounds of television / Meghan Sutherland.