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Embodied cartographies of the unscene: A feminist approach to (geo)visualising film and television production

Author(s): Sharp, Laura

Abstract

As cinema scholars continue turning to cartography and GIS to uncover new dimensions of an old media, they risk repeating the static and top-down approach to maps castigated by feminist and poststructural geographers since the 1990s. Here, I propose that cinematic cartographers strive to bring contradictory positionalities to bear on the cinematic map, a cyborg epistemology that privileges neither the view from above or the view from below. To demonstrate this approach, I detail my own methodology and techniques using GPS tracking and ESRI Story Maps to explore the daily activities of a film location scout in Los Angeles, California.

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Sharp, Laura: Embodied cartographies of the unscene: A feminist approach to (geo)visualising film and television production. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 7 (2018), Nr. 2, S. 161-181. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/3465.
@ARTICLE{Sharp2018,
 author = {Sharp, Laura},
 title = {Embodied cartographies of the unscene: A feminist approach to (geo)visualising film and television production},
 year = 2018,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/3465},
 volume = 7,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 journal = {NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 2,
 pages = {161--181},
}
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