Cinematic Cartography

"Using permit records allows for data to have spatial and tabular accuracy and when cross-collated with other GIS layers like zoning, neighborhoods, transportation, and commercial districts, we can begin to trace the footprint of the cinematization of the city unfolding across a map" (Lukinbeal 2022).

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

Forthcoming

Cinematic Cartography: Scale, Analysis, Topography Routledge Spatial Humanities Book Series, Sept 2024.

Case Studies

Lukinbeal_2022_LandUse.pdf

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_Lukinbeal_2022.pdf

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.

Publications

Lukinbeal, Chris, Laura Sharp, Elisbeth Sommerlad, Anton Escher (eds.). 2019. Media’s Mapping Impulse. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2012. “On Location” Filming in San Diego County from 1985—2005: How a Cinematic Landscape is Formed Through Incorporative Tasks and Represented through Mapped Inscriptions." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(1): 171-190.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2010. Mobilizing the Cartographic Paradox: Tracing the Aspect of Cartography and Prospect of Cinema. Digital Thematic Education 11(2): 1-32.
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.