Cartography

"Scale permits the transcription of objects into a representational matrix where objects are transformed from substance to abstraction, the manifestation of mimesis onto representation – scale is transmogrified from a cultural practice to an ontological being" (Lukinbeal et.al. 2019, 25).

Cinematic Cartography | Scale, Analysis, Topography | Chris LukinbealThis book uniquely bridges the conceptual gap between the history of geographic, cartographic thought and film theory with the technological and cultural shifts

Case Studies

San Diego

Los Angeles

Old Tucson Studio

Phoenix's Urban Colonias

Police & Resident Mental Maps Analysis

Publications

Lukinbeal, Chris. 2022. Land Use Mapping and the Topologies of a Cinematic City: San Diego’s Backlots from 1985-2005. Editor Eric Stein. In, Routledge Companion to Screen Media and the City.
Gleich, Joshua, and Chris Lukinbeal. 2022. A Layered Landscape of Western Movie Production: Combining Geographical and Historiographical Methods at Old Tucson Studios. Editor Eric Stein. In, Routledge Companion to Screen Media and the City.
Nelson, Elizabeth, David Dow, Chris Lukinbeal, and Ray Farley. 1997. Visual Search Process and the Multivariate Point Symbol. Cartographica 34: 19-33.
Myint, Soe, Jyoti Jain, Chris Lukinbeal, Francisco Lara-Valencia. 2010. Simulating urban growth on the U.S.-Mexico border: Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 36(3): 166–184.
Lopez, Natalie and Chris Lukinbeal. 2010. Comparing Police and Residential Perception of Crime using Mental Maps and Qualitative GIS. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 72: 33-55.
Lukinbeal, Chris, Laura Sharp, Elisbeth Sommerlad, Anton Escher (eds.). 2019. Media’s Mapping Impulse. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. The Mapping of 500 Days of Summer: A processual approach to cinematic cartography. NECSUS an International Journal of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. Autumn.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2015. Scale and its Histories. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 78: 1-13.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2010. Mobilizing the Cartographic Paradox: Tracing the Aspect of Cartography and Prospect of Cinema. Digital Thematic Education 11(2): 1-32.