Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America (Screening Spaces)

Amy Lynn Corbin is Assistant Professor of Media and Communication and Acting Director of Film Studies at Muhlenberg College, USA.

Title: Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America (Screening Spaces)

Author: Corbin, Amy

ISBN: 9781137482662

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-10-25

Number of Pages: 310

Weight: 0.7169 kg

Taking revisionist Westerns of the seventies as its starting point and traveling through cinematic spaces as varied as the American South, cities, and suburbs, Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America explores the cinema's role in the creation of cultural landscapes. Its analysis of filmic space focuses not only on the role of travel and exploration within narratives, but it also maps the cinema's creation of spectatorial points of view based on the construction of certain settings in different genres. It is utterly original in its approach to understanding the functions and meanings of space in late twentieth-century film. - Paula Massood, Professor, Film Studies, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA