Film Geography
"In recent years, geography has seen a shift from film and media as text to understanding them as social practices. Here, the emphasis is not on representational meaning, but on what representations do and how they do it" (Lukinbeal and Sommerlad 2022).
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Don't miss the special edition on "Film Geography" 2022 in GeoJournal. Guest Editors: Chris Lukinbeal and Lisa Sommerlad. 16 interdisciplinary essays including UArizona's Orhon Myadar and Tony Colella's on feminist geopolitics and Ozelm Ozgur on participatory video with refugees.
What is Film Geography?
Lukinbeal, Chris and Elisabeth Sommerlad. 2022. Doing Film Geography. Geojournal.
Lukinbeal, Chris. Film and Cinema. 2020. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography volume 4, 2nd Edition, Volume 5, pp.107-111. Edited by Audrey Kobayashi. Elsevier Press: Oxford.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Stefan Zimmerman. 2006. Film Geography: A New Subfield. Erdkunde, 60(4): 315-326.
Kennedy, Christina, and Chris Lukinbeal. 1997. Towards a Holistic Approach to Geographic Research on Film. Progress in Human Geography 21: 33-50.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2019. Imagined Cities (Cinema). In, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. pp. 1-4. New York: Wiley.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Stefan Zimmerman. 2006. Film Geography: A New Subfield. Erdkunde, 60(4): 315-326.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Stefan Zimmermann (eds). 2008. The Geography of Cinema – a Cinematic World. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. (republished as an ebook in 2013).
Lukinbeal, Chris, and Stefan Zimmermann. 2008. The Cinematic World. In, The Geography of Cinema – a Cinematic World. pp. 14-23. Edited by Chris Lukinbeal and Stefan Zimmermann. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2004. The Map that Precedes the Territory: An Introduction to Essays in Cinematic Geography. GeoJournal 59 (4): 247-251.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2014. Geography and Film. In, Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sharp, Laura and Chris Lukinbeal. 2015. Film Geography: A Review and Prospectus. In, Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media, Springer, Science and Business Media series, International Handbooks of Human Geography. Edited by, Susan Mains, Julie Cupples, and Chris Lukinbeal. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. pp 21-35.
Film Production
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2022. ‘No Life Here:’ The Effects of Motion Picture Incentive on Below the Line Labor in Hollywood South. Geojournal.
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. 2019. The Chinafication of Hollywood: Chinese consumption and the self-censorship of U.S. films through a case study of Transformers Age of Extinction. Erdkunde 73(2): 97-110.
Gleich, Joshua and Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography. Mediapolis Journal 3(4).
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2004. The Rise of Regional Film Production Centers in North America, 1984-1997. GeoJournal 59 (4): 307-321.
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. 2006. Runaway Hollywood: Cold Mountain Romania. Erdkunde, 60(4): 337-345.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2002. Teaching Historical Geographies of American Film Production. Journal of Geography 101: 250-260. (Awarded Best Content Article for 2003 by the National Council for Geographic Education).
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson. Mediapolis Journal 3(4).
Lukinbeal, Chris. 1998. Reel-to-real urban geographies: The top five cinematic cities in North America California Geographer. The California Geographer 38(1): 64-78
Landscape
Lukinbeal, Chris. Cinematic Landscapes. 2005. Journal of Cultural Geography 23(1): 3-22 (Translated to Persian 2018, In, Landscape Narrative; Essays on Textuality & Readability of Landscape, Ed. Ali Asadpour. pp. 131-148. Mashhad, Iran: Ketabkadeh Kasra) (4th most cited paper in Journal of Cultural Geography 10/5/23).
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2022. The American Cinematic Landscape Inscribed @Work. Editors, Chris Post, Alyson Greiner, Geoff Buckley. In, Routledge’s Companion to the American Landscape.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Daniel D. Arreola. 2005. Exploring Cinematic Landscape, Journal of Cultural Geography 23(1): 1-2.
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.
Film Form
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2015. Living Montage: A Gastronomy of the Eye. You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography XVII: 96-98.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2019. Narrative formula through the geography of Transformers: Age of Extinction. Ed. Stann Brunn. pp. 1-23. In, Changing World Language Map. New York: Springer.
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. 2012. Scale: An Unstable Representational Analogy. Media Field Journal 4: 1-13.
Case Studies
Lukinbeal, Chris, and Christina Kennedy. 1993. Dick Tracy's Cityscape. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook 55: 76-96.
Aitken, Stuart, and Chris Lukinbeal. 1998. Disassociated Masculinities and Geographies of the Road. In, The Road Movies Book. pp. 349-370. Edited by Ina Hark and Steve Cohan. New York: Routledge.
Aitken, Stuart, and Chris Lukinbeal. 1998. Of Heroes, Fools and Fisher Kings: Cinematic Representations of Street Myths and Hysterical Males in the Films of Terry Gilliam. Images of the Streets: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space. pp. 141-159. Edited by Nick Fyfe. New York: Routledge.
Lukinbeal, Chris, and Stuart Aitken. 1998. Sex, Violence and the Weather: Male Hysteria, Scale and the Fractal Geographies of Patriarchy. In, Places Through the Body. pp. 356-380. Edited by Heidi Nast and Steve Pile. New York: Routledge.
Film Tourism
Lukinbeal Chris, Ann Fletchall. 2013. The Hollowed/Hallowed Ground of Cinematic Tourism. In, Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters, pp 223-236. Edited by Lester, J, Scarles, C. & Duncan, T. Surrey: Ashgate.
Cartography & GIS
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.
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. 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.