Publications

Books

Lukinbeal, C. 2025. Cinematic Cartography: Scale, Analysis, Topography. London: Routledge.

Lukinbeal, C., L. Sharp, E. Sommerlad, and A. Escher, eds. 2019. Media’s Mapping Impulse. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Mains, S., J. Cupples, and C. Lukinbeal, eds. 2015. Mediated Geographies/Geographies of Media. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Fletchall, A., C. Lukinbeal, and K. McHugh. 2012. Place, Television, and the Real Orange County. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Lukinbeal, C., and S. Zimmermann, eds. 2008. The Geography of Cinema – a Cinematic World. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Essays

Liverman, D., Lukinbeal, C., Oberhauser, A. 2025. In Memoriam: Janice E. J. Monk (1937-2024).  Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 

Bristol, W., C. Lukinbeal, J. Hoover, K. Daniels, P. Sledge, J. Russell, M. Evans. 2025. An Interdisciplinary National Suitability Analysis to Site Cosmic Explorer. 16th Edoardo Alamdi Proceedings on Gravitational Waves.

Kathryne, D., J. R. Smith, S. Ballmer, W. Bristol, J. C. Driggers, A. Effler, M. Evans, E. Hall, J. Hoover, K. Kuns, et al. 2025. Criteria for identifying and evaluating locations that could potentially host the Cosmic Explorer observatories. Review of Scientific Instruments 96 (1). doi: 10.1063/5.0242016.

Lukinbeal, C. 2024. Film and Geography. In Encyclopedia of Human Geography, ed. B. Warf. London: Springer International Publishing.

Lukinbeal, C. 2024. Google Mapping and Web Publishing Made Easy or Practicing Cultural Cartography. Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany.

Lukinbeal, C. 2024. Geography and Film (Deli yu Dianying 地理與電影) [In Chinese]. Journal of Film Studies, 88–99.

Lukinbeal, C. 2024. The antithetical cartographies of geospatial cinema. In The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities, ed. T. Rossetto and L. Lo Presti, 143–51. London: Routledge.

Lukinbeal, C. 2023. Geography and Film. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, ed. B. Warf. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199874002-0097.

Lukinbeal, C. 2023. The American Cinematic Landscape Inscribed @Work. In Routledge’s Companion to the American Landscape, ed. C. Post, A. Greiner, and G. Buckley, 122–32. London: Routledge.

Lukinbeal, C., and L. Sharp. 2022. ‘No Life Here:’ The Effects of Motion Picture Incentive on Below the Line Labor in Hollywood South. Geojournal 87:43–51.

Lukinbeal, C., and E. Sommerlad. 2022. Doing Film Geography. Geojournal 87:1–9.

Gleich, J., and C. Lukinbeal. 2022. A Layered Landscape of Western Movie Production: Combining Geographical and Historiographical Methods at Old Tucson Studios. In Routledge Companion to Screen Media and the City, ed. E. Stein, 205–16. London: Routledge.

Lukinbeal, C. 2022. Land Use Mapping and the Topologies of a Cinematic City: San Diego’s Backlots from 1985-2005. In Routledge Companion to Screen Media and the City, ed. E. Stein, 178–87. London: Routledge.

Lukinbeal, C. 2022. From Emergency Remote Teaching to Academic Strategic Digitalization Planning: A College Responded to COVID-19 and What Departments Need to Consider Implementing. In COVID-19 and an Emerging World of Ad Hoc Geographies, ed. S. Brunn, 2119–32. New York: Springer.

Stermon, M., and C. Lukinbeal. 2021. Redlined District Then and Now in Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook 83:81–97.

Lukinbeal, C. 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.

Smilovsky, N., and C. Lukinbeal. 2019. How Variables of Social Capital in Three Hispanic Neighborhoods Relate to an Individual’s Activity Space. Landscape Research Record 8:271–83.

Lukinbeal, C., and L. Sharp. 2019. Media’s Mapping Impulse: An Introduction. In Media’s Mapping Impulse, ed. C. Lukinbeal, L. Sharp, A. Escher, and E. Sommerlad, 9–29. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Lukinbeal, C., and L. Sharp. 2019. Narrative formula through the geography of Transformers: Age of Extinction. In Changing World Language Map, ed. S. Brunn, 1–23. New York: Springer.

Lukinbeal, C. 2019. Cinematic Landscapes. (In Persian). In Landscape Narrative; Essays on Textuality & Readability of Landscape, ed. A. Asadpour, 131–48. Mashhad, Iran: Ketabkadeh Kasra.

Lukinbeal, C. 2019. Film and Cinema. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd ed., vol. 5, ed. A. Kobayashi, 107–11. Oxford: Elsevier Press.

Lukinbeal, C., and L. Sharp. 2019. Imagined Cities (Cinema). In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, 1–4. New York: Wiley.

Lukinbeal, C. 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 7 (2):97–120.

Lukinbeal, C. 2018. A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson. Mediapolis Journal 3 (4).

Gleich, J., and C. Lukinbeal. 2018. Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography. Mediapolis Journal 3 (4).

Lukinbeal, C., and L. Sharp. 2017. City as Backlot: On Location in San Diego. In Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds, ed. K. Fast, A. Jansson, J. Lindell, L. R. Bengtsson, and M. Tesfahuney, 132–51. New York: Routledge.

Stieve, T., and C. Lukinbeal. 2017. Popular Culture. In Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. New York: Wiley Press.

Sharp, L., and C. Lukinbeal. 2017. Film Geography. In Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. New York: Wiley Press.

Lukinbeal, C. 2016. Scale and its Histories. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 78:1–13.

Lukinbeal, C. 2015. President’s Column: The Rise of Professional Education. Pacifica: Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Spring: 1-11.

Lukinbeal, C. 2015. Report of the Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting: Tucson, Arizona, September 24-27, 2014. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 77: 86-89.

Lukinbeal, C., and J. Monk. 2015. Masters of Science in Geographic Information Systems Degree Programs in the United States. Professional Geographer 67 (3):482–89.

Lukinbeal, C., and L. Sharp. 2015. Performing America’s Toughest Sheriff: Media as Practice in Joe Arpaio’s Old West. Geojournal 6 (20):881–92.

Lukinbeal, C., J. Finn, J. P. Jones, C. Kennedy, and K. Woodward. 2015. Mediated Geographies Across Arizona: Learning Literacy Skills through Filmmaking. In Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media, ed. S. Mains, J. Cupples, and C. Lukinbeal, 401–16. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Sharp, L., and C. Lukinbeal. 2015. Film Geography: A Review and Prospectus. In Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media, ed. S. Mains, J. Cupples, and C. Lukinbeal, 21–35. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Mains, S., J. Cupples, and C. Lukinbeal. 2015. Introducing Mediated Geographies. In Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media, ed. S. Mains, J. Cupples, and C. Lukinbeal, 3–19. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lukinbeal, C., J. Monk, and I. Patten. 2015. Designing a Master's Program in GIS to Meet Professional Expectations in the Workplace. In Perspectives on Masters Level Teaching, Learning and Student Experience, ed. P. Kneale and S. Brown, 229–31. New York: Palgrave.

Lukinbeal, C., and L. Sharp. 2014. Living Montage: A Gastronomy of the Eye. You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography 17:96–98.

Lukinbeal, C. 2014. Geographic Media Literacy. Journal of Geography 113 (2):41–46.

Lukinbeal, C., and L. Sharp. 2014. Geography and Film. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, ed. B. Warf. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lukinbeal, C. 2014. President’s Column: The Center of the World. Pacifica, Fall: 1-6.

Lukinbeal, C., and J. Monk. 2013. Masters of Science in Geographic Information Systems Technology. In Enhancement Themes. Quality Assurance Agency Scotland.

Lukinbeal, C., and A. Fletchall. 2013. The Hollowed/Hallowed Ground of Cinematic Tourism. In Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters, ed. J. Lester, C. Scarles, and T. Duncan, 223–36. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.

Lukinbeal, C. 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):171–90.

Lukinbeal, C., P. Price, and C. Buell. 2012. Rethinking ‘Diversity’ Through Analyzing Residential Segregation among Hispanics in Phoenix, Miami and Chicago. Professional Geographer 64 (1):109–24.

Lukinbeal, C. 2012. Scale: An Unstable Representational Analogy. Media Field Journal 4:1–13.

Price, P., C. Lukinbeal, R. Gioioso, D. D. Arreola, D. Fernández, T. Ready, and M. A. Torres. 2011. Placing Latino Civic Engagement. Urban Geography 32:179–207.

Allen, C., and C. Lukinbeal. 2011. Practicing Physical Geography: an Actor-Network View of Physical Geography Exemplified by the Study of Rock Art. Progress in Physical Geography 35:227–48.

Artiles, A. J., E. B. Kozleski, F. R. Waitoller, and C. Lukinbeal. 2011. Inclusive Education and the Interlocking of Ability and Race in the U.S.: Notes for an Educational Equity Research Program. In Equity in Inclusive Education in Four Continents: A Cultural Historical Multilevel Model, ed. A. J. Artiles, E. B. Kozleski, and F. R. Waitoller, 45–68. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Lukinbeal, C., D. D. Arreola, and D. D. Lucio. 2010. Mexican Urban Colonias in the Salt River Valley. Geographical Review 100 (1):12–34.

Lopez, N., and C. 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, C. 2010. Mobilizing the Cartographic Paradox: Tracing the Aspect of Cartography and Prospect of Cinema. ETD: Digital Thematic Education 11 (2):1–32.

Myint, S., J. Jain, C. Lukinbeal, and F. Lara-Valencia. 2010. Simulating urban growth on the U.S.-Mexico border: Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 36 (3):166–84.

Lukinbeal, C. 2010. Film and Geography. In Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd ed., ed. B. Warf. London: Sage. Accessed Month dd, yyyy. http://www.sage-ereference.com/geography/Article_n428.html.

Lukinbeal, C., and J. Craine. 2009. Geographic Media Literacy: an introduction. GeoJournal 74:175–82.

Lukinbeal, C. 2009. Film. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, vol. 4, ed. R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, 125–29. Oxford: Elsevier Press.

Finn, J., and C. Lukinbeal. 2009. Musical Cartographies: Ritmos de los Barrios de la Habana. In Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music, ed. O. Johansson and T. Bell, 127–44. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.

Arreola, D., D. D. Lucio, C. Lukinbeal, and G. Cuadraz. 2008. Mexican Litchfield Park: A Forgotten Colonia of the Salt River Valley. Journal of Arizona History 49 (4):329–54.

Craine, J., J. Dittmer, and C. Lukinbeal. 2008. Introduction. Aether: The Journal of Media Geography 3 (1).

Lukinbeal, C., and S. Zimmermann. 2008. The Cinematic World. In The Geography of Cinema – a Cinematic World, ed. C. Lukinbeal and S. Zimmermann, 14–23. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Lukinbeal, C., J. Craine, and J. Dittmer. 2007. Aether: A Prospectus. Aether: The Journal of Media Geography 1:1–3.

Lukinbeal, C., and C. Allen. 2007. Virtual Egalitarianism, Critical Pedagogy, and Geographic Education. Journal of Geography 106 (5):199–205.

Lukinbeal, C., C. B. Kennedy, J. P. Jones III, J. Finn, K. A. Woodward, D. Nelson, Z. A. Grant, N. Antonopoulos, A. Palos, and C. Atkinson-Palombo. 2007. Mediated Geographies: Critical Pedagogy and Geographic Education. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 69:31–44.

Lukinbeal, C. 2006. Runaway Hollywood: Cold Mountain Romania. Erdkunde 60 (4):337–45.

Arreola, D. And Lukinbeal, C. 2006. Report on the Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona October 19-22, 2005.  Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook 68: 142-164.

Lukinbeal, C., and S. Zimmerman. 2006. Film Geography: A New Subfield. Erdkunde 60 (4):315–26.

Lukinbeal, C., and D. D. Arreola. 2005. Exploring Cinematic Landscape. Journal of Cultural Geography 23 (1):1–2.

Lukinbeal, C. 2005. Cinematic Landscapes. Journal of Cultural Geography 23 (1):3–22.

Lukinbeal, C. 2004. The Map that Precedes the Territory: An Introduction to Essays in Cinematic Geography. GeoJournal 59 (4):247–51.

Lukinbeal, C. 2004. The Rise of Regional Film Production Centers in North America, 1984-1997. GeoJournal 59 (4):307–21.

Lukinbeal, C. 2004. The Monster that Ate Hollywood. Place and Culture. Spring. 4-5.

Lukinbeal, C. 2002. Teaching Historical Geographies of American Film Production. Journal of Geography 101:250–60.

Lukinbeal, C. 1998. Reel-to-real urban geographies: The Top Five Cinematic Cities in North America. California Geographer 38 (1):64–78.

Lukinbeal, C., and S. Aitken. 1998. Sex, Violence and the Weather: Male Hysteria, Scale and the Fractal Geographies of Patriarchy. In Places Through the Body, ed. H. Nast and S. Pile, 356–80. New York: Routledge.

Aitken, S., and C. Lukinbeal. 1998. Of Heroes, Fools and Fisher Kings: Cinematic Representations of Street Myths and Hysterical Males in the Films of Terry Gilliam. In Images of the Streets: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space, ed. N. Fyfe, 141–59. New York: Routledge.

Kennedy, C., and C. Lukinbeal. 1997. Towards a Holistic Approach to Geographic Research on Film. Progress in Human Geography 21:33–50.

Nelson, E., D. Dow, C. Lukinbeal, and R. Farley. 1997. Visual Search Process and the Multivariate Point Symbol. Cartographica 34:19–33.

Aitken, S., and C. Lukinbeal. 1997. Disassociated Masculinities and Geographies of the Road. In The Road Movies Book, ed. I. Hark and S. Cohan, 349–70. New York: Routledge.

Lukinbeal, C., and C. Kennedy. 1993. Dick Tracy's Cityscape. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook 55:76–96.

Lukinbeal, C., and C. Kennedy. 1992. Suburban Landscapes of the East Bay. California Geographer 32:77–93.