Film Production Geography
"Now you have your production designers that have nothing better to do because they’re from L.A. or New York and have no life here" (New Orleans Location Manager 2015).
North America
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. 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. 2004. The Rise of Regional Film Production Centers in North America, 1984-1997. GeoJournal 59 (4): 307-321.
Lukinbeal, Chris. 1998. Reel-to-Real Urban Geographies: The Top Five Cinematic Cities in North America. California Geographer 38: 64-77.
San Diego
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. 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 and Laura Sharp. 2017. City as Backlot: On Location in San Diego. In, Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds. Eds. Karin Fast, Andre Jansson, Johan Lindell, Linda Ryan Bengtsson, and Mekonnen Tesfahuney. pp. 132-151. New York: Routledge.
Old Tucson Studios
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.
Gleich, Joshua and Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography. Mediapolis Journal 3(4).
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson. Mediapolis Journal 3(4).
New Orleans
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2022. ‘No Life Here:’ The Effects of Motion Picture Incentive on Below the Line Labor in Hollywood South. Geojournal.
China
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.
North Carolina
Lukinbeal, Chris. 2006. Runaway Hollywood: Cold Mountain Romania. Erdkunde, 60(4): 337-345.