Taking Place argues that the relation between geographical location and the moving image is fundamental and that place grounds our experience of film and media. Its original essays analyze film, television, video, and installation art from diverse national and transnational contexts to rethink both the study of moving images and the theorization of place. Through its unprecedented--and at times even obsessive-- attention to actual places, this volume traces the tensions between the global and the local, the universal and the particular, that inhere in contemporary debates on global...
Taking Place argues that the relation between geographical location and the moving image is fundamental and that place grounds our experienc...
Taking Place argues that the relation between geographical location and the moving image is fundamental and that place grounds our experience of film and media. Its original essays analyze film, television, video, and installation art from diverse national and transnational contexts to rethink both the study of moving images and the theorization of place. Through its unprecedented--and at times even obsessive-- attention to actual places, this volume traces the tensions between the global and the local, the universal and the particular, that inhere in contemporary debates on global...
Taking Place argues that the relation between geographical location and the moving image is fundamental and that place grounds our experienc...
Investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. Contributors excavate sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction and amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence, focusing primarily on recent films made across Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East
Investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. Contribu...
Investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. Contributors excavate sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction and amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence, focusing primarily on recent films made across Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
Investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. Contribu...