Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives - Rilegato

Stadler, Jane; Mitchell, Peta; Carleton, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0253018382 ISBN 13: 9780253018380

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia’s cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape. It offers fresh insights on cultural topography and spatial history by examining the technical and conceptual challenges of georeferencing fictional and fictionalized places in narratives. Among the items discussed are Wake in Fright, a novel by Kenneth Cook, adapted iconically to the screen and recently onto the stage; the Australian North as a mythic space; spatial and temporal narrative shifts in retellings of the story of Alexander Pearce, a convict who gained notoriety for resorting to cannibalism after escaping from a remote Tasmanian penal colony; travel narratives and road movies set in Western Australia; and the challenges and spatial politics of mapping spaces for which there are no coordinates.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jane Stadler is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0253018382
• ISBN 13: 9780253018380
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 226
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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