Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives - Brossura

Stadler, Jane; Mitchell, Peta; Carleton, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0253018455 ISBN 13: 9780253018458

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

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

Peta Mitchell is Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology.

Stephen Carleton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland.

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

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Imagined Landscapes

Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives

By Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, Stephen Carleton

Indiana University Press

Copyright © 2016 Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, and Stephen Carleton
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-253-01845-8

Contents

Acknowledgments, ix, 
Introduction: Geocriticism's Disciplinary Boundaries, 1, 
1 Remediating Space: Adaptation and Narrative Geography, 29, 
2 Cultural Topography and Mythic Space: Australia's North as Gothic Zone, 69, 
3 Spatial History: Mapping Narrative Perceptions of Place over Time, 97, 
4 Mobility and Travel Narratives: Geovisualizing the Cultural Politics of Belonging to the Land, 132, 
5 Terra Incognita: Mapping the Uncertain and the Unknown, 161, 
Works Cited, 195, 
Index, 217, 

CHAPTER 1

REMEDIATING SPACE

Adaptation and Narrative Geography

The formal characteristics of films, novels, and plays privilege varied expressions of imaginative geography and these cultural narratives, we argue, not only mediate and represent space, place, and location but are themselves mediated representational spaces. Furthermore, films, novels, and plays also open themselves up to further remediation in the form of cross-media adaptation or, to push the point further, in the form of geovisualization and the spatial analysis it enables. Adaptation studies is an exciting, dynamic, and rapidly developing interdisciplinary field, and yet, like narrative theory, it has not fully or directly accounted for the question of space. Adaptation studies has been more concerned with questions of fidelity (or the validity of those questions), lines of influence, and transmediality and with the translation of space, place, and landscape between narrative forms being rarely addressed.

In compiling and constructing our Cultural Atlas of Australia, we encountered many texts in which the geographical setting of the narrative was modified — to greater or lesser degrees — across adaptations. For instance, John Curran's 1998 film adaptation of Andrew McGahan's cult "grunge" novel, Praise (1992), is filmed in Sydney rather than in Brisbane — the city in which the novel is set and with which it is intimately connected. Although McGahan wrote the screenplay for Curran's adaptation, and although the narrative setting of the film version remains, broadly speaking, the same (that is, urban Australia in the early 1990s), the choice of filming location means that the adaptation loses some of the novel's locational and regional specificity — namely, its focus on the then low-rent, inner-city Brisbane suburbs of New Farm and Fortitude Valley. A more dramatic example is Scott Hicks's The Boys Are Back (2009), a film adaptation of British journalist Simon Carr's memoir about his experiences raising his sons in New Zealand following the death of his wife. Hicks's adaptation is neither set nor filmed in New Zealand; instead, it transplants the entire narrative to Australia, from Hawke's Bay on the east coast of New Zealand's north island to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, and its environs — over 2000 miles (3219 km.) and another country away. Film adaptations may also, of course, provide a more heightened sense of location, simply by virtue of the fact they must be filmed somewhere, if they are being filmed on location, and this is particularly the case when the narrative setting of the adapted text is fictional, ambiguous, or only loosely sketched (as in the case of George T. Miller's 1982 film adaptation of A. B. "Banjo" Paterson's 1890 poem "The

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0253018455
• ISBN 13: 9780253018458
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 226
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