Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image

Contents

Contents Introduction: The Matter of Places vii Elena Gorfinkel and John David Rhodes Part I. Cinematic Style and the Places of Modernity 1. From Venice to the Valley: California Slapstick and the Keaton Comedy Short 3 Charles Wolfe 2. The Eclipse of Place: Rome’s EUR from Rossellini to Antonioni 31 John David Rhodes 3. Tales of Times Square: Sexploitation’s Secret History of Place 55 Elena Gorfinkel 4. Derek Jarman in the Docklands: The Last of England and Thatcher’s London 77 Mark W. Turner Part II. Place as Index of Cinema 5. The Cinecittà Refugee Camp, 1944–50 101 Noa Steimatsky 6. Right Here in Mason City: The Music Man and Small-Town Nostalgia 133 Linda A. Robinson 7. When the Set Becomes Permanent: The Spatial Reconfiguration of Hollywood North 157 Aurora Wallace 8. The Last Place on Earth? Allegories of Deplacialization in Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie 181 Ara Osterweil Part III. Geopolitical Displacements 9. The Nonplace of Argento: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Roman Urban History 211 Michael Siegel 10. The Placement of Shadows: What’s Inside William Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noire? 233 Frances Guerin 11. Into the “Imaginary” and “Real” Place: Stan Douglas’s Site-Specific Film and Video Projection 255 Ji-hoon Kim 12. Doing Away with Words: Synaesthetic Dislocations in Okinawa and Hong Kong 277 Rosalind Galt Part IV. (Not) Being There 13. Moving through Images 299 Brian Price 14. Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the Films of George Romero 317 Hugh S. Manon 15. On the Grounds of Television 339 Meghan Sutherland Acknowledgments 363 Contributors 365 Index 369 ...