Article:
Animated maps and the power of the trace

dc.creatorFidotta, Giuseppe
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T11:48:22Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T11:48:22Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe animated map, a generally overlooked rhetorical device, is questioned throughout this essay as a meaningful and useful case for rethinking the notion of the trace in the analysis of documentary films. Drawing on the debate led by critical cartography since the 1980s the essay discusses the relation between maps, ideology, and propaganda specifically with regard to fascist documentaries made between 1939 and 1942 that are entirely composed with animated maps. Through the notion of the ‘power of the trace’ ‐ the construct warranting the perfect correspondence of image and world ‐ the essay interrogates the misleading use of animated maps in documentary as evidence, informational images, and faithful reproductions of the territory. By looking at the roles played by space, time, materiality, and narrative in animated maps I instead propose an examination of the trace, taking into account the possibilities offered to visual-oriented analysis.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.FIDO
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15117
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/animated-maps-power-trace/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3300
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectAnimationsverfahrende
dc.subjectAnimationde
dc.subjectKartografiede
dc.subjectDokumentarfilmde
dc.subjectFaschismusde
dc.subjectPropaganda
dc.subjectSpurde
dc.subjectanimationen
dc.subjectcartographyen
dc.subjectdocumentaryen
dc.subjectfascismen
dc.subjecttracesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:943
dc.titleAnimated maps and the power of the traceen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationFidotta, Giuseppe (2014): Animated maps and the power of the trace. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 3 (1), 267–298. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.FIDO.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:21:46
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.FIDO
local.source.epage298
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage267
local.source.volume3

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