Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image

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Contents
Introduction: The Matter of Places
Part I. Cinematic Style and the Places of Modernity
	1. From Venice to the Valley: California Slapstick and the Keaton Comedy Short
	2. The Eclipse of Place: Rome’s EUR from Rossellini to Antonioni
	3. Tales of Times Square: Sexploitation’s Secret History of Place
	4. Derek Jarman in the Docklands: The Last of England and Thatcher’s London
Part II. Place as Index of Cinema
	5. The Cinecittà Refugee Camp, 1944–50
	6. Right Here in Mason City: The Music Man and Small-Town Nostalgia
	7. When the Set Becomes Permanent: The Spatial Reconfiguration of Hollywood North
	8. The Last Place on Earth? Allegories of Deplacialization in Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie
Part III. Geopolitical Displacements
	9. The Nonplace of Argento: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Roman Urban History
	10. The Placement of Shadows: What’s Inside William Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noire?
	11. Into the “Imaginary” and “Real” Place: Stan Douglas’s Site-Specific Film and Video Projection
	12. Doing Away with Words: Synaesthetic Dislocations in Okinawa and Hong Kong
Part IV. (Not) Being There
	13. Moving through Images
	14. Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the Films of George Romero
	15. On the Grounds of Television
Acknowledgments
Contributors
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