Postmodern cartographies
Subtitle: the geographical imagination in contemporary American culture
By: Brian Jarvis
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780585346854
Subjects: Landscape assessment; Geographical perception; American fiction; History and criticism; Geographical perception in literature; Motion pictures; History; Paysages; Évaluation; Perception géographique; Roman américain; Histoire et critique; Perception géographique dans la littérature; Cinéma; Histoire; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Human Geography; Ruimte (algemeen); Representatie (algemeen); Postmodernisme
Description: "Postmodern Cartographies explores spatial representation in a range of texts from the social sciences, prose fiction and cinema. It surveys the geography of post-industrial society as advanced in the work of Daniel Bell, Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard; analyses representations of space in novels by Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Jayne Anne Phillips and Toni Morrison; and, in a key third section, examines sexual politics and body images in science fiction cinema and the films of David Lynch. Jarvis demonstrates an essential continuity between the geographical imagination expressed in so-called postmodern culture and that evident in previous phases in the history of spatial representation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.