The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000

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By Christian B. Long

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The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with detailed analyses of Hollywood films spanning four decades. Christian B. Long presents a distinctive history of twentieth-century Hollywood narrative cinema, emphasising the interplay of narrative location, production, audience reception, and taste before digital cinema’s emergence. By mapping films’ narrative settings, Long redefines film history by pinpointing the evolving spatial focus of Hollywood storytelling over time.
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This book is well suited for film scholars, students of cinema studies, and readers interested in the spatial and cultural dimensions of Hollywood films from 1960 to 2000. Those intrigued by digital humanities and geographic approaches to narrative will find this work particularly valuable.

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of twentieth-century Hollywood narrative cinema, one that is focused on the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption and ...

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The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of twentieth century Hollywood narrative cinema, focused on the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption, and taste in the era before the rise of digital cinema.

Long redraws the boundaries of film history, both literally and figuratively, by cataloguing films’ narrative locations on digital maps to illustrate where Hollywood actually locates its narratives over time.

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License and is part of Knowledge Unlatched.

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The book is praised for its innovative approach, aligning well with other studies on the spatial politics of US cinema. Long's use of digital maps to explore location as a 'powerful explanatory force' offers fresh insights into the relationship between filmmaking trends and the depicted spaces. Chapters 2 and 3 are highlighted for effectively linking spatial elements to industrial developments and cinematic themes, enhancing cultural, historical, and political understanding of Hollywood narratives.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783208296

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 December 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 689g

Pages: 300

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About the Author

Christian B. Long works at Queensland University of Technology and is an honorary research fellow at the University of Queensland.