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The Spatial Humanities
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Gary Lock, University of Oxford, UK
Barney Warf, Kansas University, USA
May Yuan, Oklahoma University, USA
LOCATING THE
MOVING IMAGE
NEW APPROACHES TO FILM AND PLACE
EDITED BY JULIA HALLAM AND LES ROBERTS
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Contents
· Acknowledgments vii
1 Film and Spatiality: Outline of a New Empiricism 1
Les Roberts and Julia Hallam
2 Getting to “Going to the Show” 31
Robert C. Allen
3 Space, Place, and the Female Film Exhibitor:
The Transformation of Cinema in Small-Town
New Hampshire during the 1910s 44
Jeffrey Klenotic
4 Mapping Film Exhibition in Flanders (1920–1990):
A Diachronic Analysis of Cinema Culture Combined
with Demographic and Geographic Data 80
Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers
5 Mapping the Ill-Disciplined? Spatial Analyses and
Historical Change in the Postwar Film Industry 106
Deb Verhoeven and Colin Arrowsmith
6 Mapping Film Audiences in Multicultural Canada:
Examples from the Cybercartographic Atlas
of Canadian Cinema 130
Sébastien Caquard, Daniel Naud, and Benjamin Wright
7 The Geography of Film Production in Italy:
A Spatial Analysis Using GIS 150
Elisa Ravazzoli
8 Mapping the “City” Film 1930–1980 173
Julia Hallam
9 Retracing the Local: Amateur Cine
Culture and Oral Histories 197
Ryan Shand
10 Beyond the Boundary: Vernacular Mapping and
the Sharing of Historical Authority 221
Kate Bowles
11 A fterword: Toward a Spatial History
of the Moving Image 245
Julia Hallam and Les Roberts
· Contributors 255
· Index 261
Acknowledgments
This collection of essays explores the methodologies that are being used
by film scholars to develop a new area of inquiry, one we have termed in
our concluding comments “a spatial history” of the moving image. The
contributors are interested in exploring film production, distribution,
and consumption as spatial phenomena, using empirical data and maps
to create detailed knowledge of the ways transportation and communica-
tion systems shape local and national film practices and pleasures. Some
of them are pioneers in what Richard Maltby has termed “the new cinema
history,” and they presented their work at the Mapping, Memory and the
City conference at Liverpool University in February 2010. The conference
was the culmination of a two-year project, Mapping the City in Film,
funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). We
are indebted to the contributors, to the amateur cine societies on Mersey-
side, and collector and filmmaker Angus Tilston for enthusiastic support
for the project, Marion Hewitt at North West Film Archive, and Janet
Dugdale, Julia Bryan, and their colleagues at the Museum of Liverpool for
helping to ensure that the moving image record of Merseyside is archived
for the use and pleasure of future generations.
A networking scheme funded by British Telecom and the AHRC
enabled Julia Hallam (Liverpool University UK) and Ian Gregory (Lan-
caster University UK) to bring together internationally renowned schol-
ars from a diverse range of disciplines with digital artists and museum
curators. The workshops generated a number of new projects and publi-
cations (including this one) and stimulated the development of new col-
laborations in this emergent area. We are particularly indebted to David
Bodenhamer (Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis),
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who commissioned this collection as part of his Spatial Humanities series
for Indiana University Press; David’s support and encouragement for this
new area of work has been invaluable and we are most grateful to him. We
would like to thank Taylor and Francis for permission to reprint an article
by Robert C. Allen (2010) “Getting to Going to the Show,” New Review
of Film and Television Studies 8(3), 264–76, the British Film Institute
for permission to use an image of Patrick Keiller’s exhibition City of the
Future at BFI Southbank (2007–08), and the Museum of Liverpool for
providing images of the interactive map in the History Detectives Gal-
lery. Les Roberts designed the cover for this collection and has overseen
both the development of the Mapping the City in Film website and the
GIS resource that supports it; Julia would like to extend particular thanks
to him for his careful stewardship and creative input.
Finally we would like to thank staff and students in the Department
of Communication and Media and the School of Architecture at Liver-
pool University for their ongoing support for the project and the AHRC
for funding the projects that have enabled this new body of work in film
and the spatial humanities to develop and thrive.
Julia Hallam and Les Roberts
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