Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America - (Screening Spaces) by Amy Lynn Corbin (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A study of films set in four iconic American landscapes--Indian Country, the South, the inner city, and the suburbs--reveals the way that popular film participates in a nationwide discussion about the role of multiculturalism in the post civil rights era. Cinematic sensations of familiarity and foreignness construct a virtual cultural map of America for the film spectator"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Exploration, intertwined with home-seeking, has always defined America. Corbin argues that films about significant cultural landscapes in America evoke a sense of travel for their viewers. These virtual travel experiences from the mid-1970s through the 1990s built a societal map of "popular multiculturalism" through a movie-going experience.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Taking revisionist Westerns of the seventies as its starting point and traveling through cinematic spaces as varied as the American South, cities, and suburbs, Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America explores the cinema's role in the creation of cultural landscapes. Its analysis of filmic space focuses not only on the role of travel and exploration within narratives, but it also maps the cinema's creation of spectatorial points of view based on the construction of certain settings in different genres. It is utterly original in its approach to understanding the functions and meanings of space in late twentieth-century film." - Paula Massood, Professor, Film Studies, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Amy Lynn Corbin is Assistant Professor of Media and Communication and Acting Director of Film Studies at Muhlenberg College, USA.
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