Title: Postmodern cartographies
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, Geographical perception in literature, Motion pictures, Landscape assessment, Geographical perception, American fiction, History, Umweltwahrnehmung, Culture in motion pictures, Postmoderne, Literatur, Evaluation, Paysage, Kultur, Perception geographique, Cinema, Histoire et critique, Perception geographique dans la litterature, Roman americain, Film, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Motion pictures, history, Culture, United states, social life and customs, Postmodernism
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century