Description: The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of twentieth-century Hollywood narrative cinema, one that is focused on the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption and ...
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'....Long's way of posing spatial questions about film is both stylistically and conceptually incisive. He puts his book's research interest in a nutshell when asking 'what - or better yet, exactly where - "America" means in Hollywood cinema' (p. 12, emphasis in original). In answering this question, The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema offers to expand the geographical horizon of what readers perceive as American film and as America on film.'