Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and Identity

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Tim Cresswell, Deborah Dixon
Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 332 pages
Engaging Film is a creative, interdisciplinary volume that explores the engagements among film, space, and identity and features a section on the use of films in the classroom as a critical pedagogical tool. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create different experiences of time and space. From popular movies such as "Pulp Fiction," "Bulworth," "Terminator 2," and "The Crying Game" to home movies and avant-garde films, the analyses and teaching methods in this collection will engage students and researchers in film and media studies, cultural geography, social theory, and cultural studies.
 

Contents

Introduction Engaging Film
1
ENGAGING MOBILITY
11
Rethinking the Observer Film Mobility and the Construction of the Subject
13
Spectacular Violence Hypergeography and the Question of Alienation in Pulp Fiction
32
Telling Travelers Tales The World through Home Movies
47
ENGAGING IDENTITY
67
MARCUS A DOEL AND DAVID B CLARKE PRESENT Lacan The Movie
69
Chips off the Old Ice Block Nanookofthe North and the Relocation of Cultural Identity
94
Modern Identities in Early German Film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
174
ENGAGING PEDAGOGY
191
Practicing Film The Autonomy of Images in Les Amants du PontNeuf
193
The Real Thing? Contesting the Myth of Documentary Realism through Classroom Analysis of Films on Planning and Reconstruction
209
On Location Teaching the Western American Urban Landscape through Mi Vida Loca and Terminator 2
226
We lust Gotta Eliminate Em On Whiteness and Film in Matewan Avalon and Bulworth
246
Using Film as a Tool in Critical Pedagogy Reflections on the Experience of Students and Lecturers
271
Bibliography
297

Masculinity in Conflict Geopolitics and Performativity in The Crying Game
123
Smoke Signals Locating Sherman Alexies Narratives of American Indian Identity
140
Pax Disney The Annotated Diary of a Film Extra in India
159
Index
323
About the Contributors
329
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