Postmodern cartographies
Subtitle: the geographical imagination in contemporary American culture
By: Brian Jarvis.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Landscape assessment -- United States.; Geographical perception -- United States.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Geographical perception in literature.; Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index.
Filmography: p. 202.