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Article: Regional depiction in contemporary film.
- Article from:
- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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GEOGRAPHERS, long interested in documenting the history of cultural landscapes, increasingly explore the subjective and ideological origins of environmental images. Recent studies in cultural geography, influenced by critical literary theory, thrust issues such as class, race, values, language, gender, and sexuality into the forefront of geographical debate (Tuan 1974; Jackson 1989). Although geographers have studied literary and other texts in landscape representation, so far popular film has attracted little serious geographical study. Yet film and filmmakers provide a rich artistic medium for regional analysis. As with other texts, films are best not treated as ...