Taking Place

John David Rhodes is senior lecturer in literature and visual culture at the University of Sussex.Elena Gorfinkel is assistant professor of art history and film studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

"Taking Place turns critical attention to the ingredients of place in film, allowing us to regard a given film as a virtual archive of places. This emphasis is all the more welcome in the postmodern world, in which the massive reality of non-place and the hegemony of global space have become predominant. The book is a pioneering venture carried out with notable success." -Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook"For quite some time, scholars of the moving image have wrestled with the challenges posed by the concept of place within the study of cinema, television, and other images. At last, we have an anthology that advances interdisciplinary work on geography and the moving image on multiple fronts. This volume is an invaluable contribution to the ongoing work of understanding the geography of the image in the age of the cinema and beyond, and I recommend it highly." -Anna McCarthy, New York University

• ContentsIntroduction: The Matter of PlacesElena Gorfinkel and John David RhodesI. Cinematic Style and the Places of Modernity1. From Venice to the Valley: California Slapstick and the Keaton Comedy ShortCharles Wolfe2. The Eclipse of Place: Rome’s EUR from Rossellini to AntonioniJohn David Rhodes3. Tales of Times Square: Sexploitation’s Secret History of PlaceElena Gorfinkel4. Derek Jarman in the Docklands: The Last of England and Thatcher's LondonMark W. TurnerII. Place as Index of Cinema5. The CinecittÀ Refugee Camp, 1944–1950Noa Steimatsky6. Right Here in Mason City: The Music Man and Small Town NostalgiaLinda A. Robinson7. When the Set Becomes Permanent: The Spatial Reconfiguration of Hollywood NorthAurora Wallace8. The Last Place on Earth? Allegories of Deplacialization in Dennis Hopper’s The Last MovieAra OsterweilIII. Geopolitical Displacements9. The Nonplace of Argento: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Roman Urban HistoryMichael Siegel10. The Placement of Shadows: What’s Inside William Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noire?Frances Guerin11. Into the “Imaginary” and “Real” Place: Stan Douglas’s Site-Specific Film and Video ProjectionJi-Hoon Kim12. Doing Away with Words: Synaesthetic Dislocations in Okinawa and Hong KongRosalind GaltIV. (Not) Being There13. Moving through ImagesBrian Price14. Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the Films of George RomeroHugh S. Manon15. On the Grounds of TelevisionMeghan SutherlandAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex