Reel-to-real urban geographies: placing the production of representational space in an economic and industrial context.

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English

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The California Geographer 38: 64-77

Notes

With this essay I seek to show one way to examine this theoretical junction; this meeting ground of two conceptions of space. My argument is simply that the uneven development and dispersion of the film industry produces an uneven depiction of material space. Thus, the production of representational space is not a mirror of material space, but rather a product of the politics and economics of a specific industry. Consequently, if we wish to understand what we see on television and in the cinema we must begin by understanding how these images arise and where they originate. I first investigate how the demise of the studio industry changed the content of representational space. I then examine the top five cinematic cities in North America. A cinematic city is one which accounts for a high volume of on location filming. These cities dominate the economic activities related to the film production industry and are the most frequently depicted geographies in representational space.

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Reel-to-real urban geographies: placing the production of representational space in an economic and industrial context.