Cinematic Cartography

Case Studies

Lukinbeal, Chris. 2025. Cinematic Cartography: Scale, Analysis, Topography. London: Routledge.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2024. The antithetical cartographies of geospatial cinema. The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities. Editors, Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti. pp. 143-151. London: Routledge.
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.
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.