Spectator
The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television
Criticism
Spatial Experience:
Media and the Production of Place
CALL FOR PAPERS
The media plays an increasingly important role in our understanding of the
spaces around us; it can give meaning to an otherwise blank landscape or
supply narrative to a busy urban intersection. In some cases, the landscape
itself becomes media -- producing spaces as reproducible images for
consumption. It is within this mediation of the landscape, this conjoining
of the ideal and the material, that personal meaning and identification
takes place. In other words, it is within this mediation that places are
produced.
This issue of Spectator will explore the ways in which media images produce
landscape and create a sense of place. It will address how representations
of space effect lived experience, not solely from the perspective of a
change of perception, but from the standpoint of personal meaning, community
identification and bodily experience. It will begin from the idea that
there is a fundamental difference between space and place. Space is the
topography of the world; whereas place is produced through the interaction
of topography, its mediations and the body that traverses it.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Television / film / new media and urban experience
Myth and the landscape
Urban form / cinematic form
TV news and the spaces of fear
Global media spaces
Philosophy of place
Female bodies / male spaces
Mediated Structures
Policing the production of place
Alternative media / alternative places
Black places in white spaces
Media tourism and spatial experience
Places of national identity
Media monuments
Place and the body
Media and urban planning
Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2001. Papers should be no longer
than 7000 words and should be in MLA format.
Submit Papers by email to egordon@usc.edu or mail them to:
University of Southern California
Spectator
School of Cinema-Television
Division of Critical Studies
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
For more information, contact Eric Gordon at egordon@usc.edu
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