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Whereas research on the geography in film focuses on the production of meaning that occurs within the film text, research on the geography of film examines the spatial practices of film production and consumption.
- Laura Sharp, Christopher L Lukinbeal
- 2015
Apr 27, 2022 · How does the film economy and geopolitics play a role in shaping what we see on screens? These are some of the questions that drive inquiry in film geography. With this special issue we look at four emerging research themes in film geography: film-as-text; cinematic cartography; film industry geographies; videography and documentaries.
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Interpretative models have been developed by geographers to understand meaning and shifting attitudes that relate to film and specific regions. The author-text-reader (ATR) model has been one theoretical approach that is used to understand textual meaning, including conditions of production, conceptualization of the film, and its temporal context. ...
Other trends in film and geography include how states sometimes use film as a form of “soft power” to influence regional countries around them. A good recent example of this is in Turkey, which has exported many of its soap operas to other Islamic countries that have similar tastes and interests to those found in Turkey. This has had a positive inf...
More than entertainment, geographers have demonstrated the economic and political impact of films and the film industry in general to different countries and regions. Additionally, how audiences view and understand films affects where the film industry may develop in the locations in uses for productions and filming. Over time, there has been a shi...
For more on Canada’s film industry and Vancouver specifically, see: Coe, N. M. (2000). The view from out West: embeddedness, inter-personal relations and the development of an indigenous film industry in Vancouver. Geoforum, 31(4), 391–407. For more on how film is affected by urban change, see: Gregory, J. J. (2016). Creative industries and urban r...
Lukinbeal and Zimmermann give a brief history of film geography, highlighting the German tradition, and suggest that there are four key areas of current and future research into film by geographers. The authors make an impassioned argument against re-presentational views of cinema.
Mar 11, 2024 · Producer Definition What is a producer? A producer guides a film from its beginning to its completion. They have a hand in organizing and scheduling, budgeting and hiring, creative problem-solving and overseeing, and marketing and distributing.
Aug 1, 2022 · Abstract. Film geography as a subdiscipline of cultural and media geography is a long-established field of research that since its emergence more than twenty years ago has diversified into a ...
Mar 27, 2014 · Media geography encompasses, at this writing, many different forms: film and television, music, newspapers, comic books, video games, animation, virtual constructions, radio, and illustration art are some of these media constructions.
