Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations
from popular novels, films or television series. Places of the Imagination presents a timely …

From sweeping panoramas in Westerns to gritty noirscapes in Los Angeles to travelogues in
places both close to home and faraway, landscape is central in the formation of cinematic …

Large numbers of tourists travel to Transylvania every year, looking for traces of Count
Dracula. This article investigates why people feel the need to connect fictional stories, such …

With this paper, we use the film The Day After Tomorrow to explore four future trajectories of
film geography re search. The first, geopolitics, examines how film images and narratives …

Film geography as a subdiscipline of cultural and media geography is a long-established
field of research that since its emergence more than twenty years ago has diversified into a …

This article considers the phenomenon of the TV detective tour, guided tours of the locations
and settings of popular TV detective programs. What explains the growing popularity of …

Let us start with an example that is, in a disciplinary sense, close to home. The academic
geographer Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah at the University of Akron, Ohio, a well-known …

The influence that historical paintings enjoyed dur ing the 19th century (Gerner a.
Zimmermann 1997) experienced a definite shift to motion pictures, full length feature films …

The recent blockbuster hit 'Lost in Thailand'had more than USD $200 million in ticket sales
in China in 2012, and quickly became the nation's highest-grossing homegrown film ever …

In this paper we argue that montage is at the heart of contemporary human geography. We
demonstrate the centrality of montage in a wide variety of domains, including the analysis of …