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Preferred term
geography and film
Definition
- Although many geographers have used, and still do use, film as part of their teaching strategy, it is only within the past 10 years or so that sufficient quantities of research on this popular medium have been produced to allow for a disciplinary subfield called film geography. Indeed, the earliest disciplinary writings on film, produced for The Geographical Magazine during the 1950s, were aimed at elucidating their usefulness as teaching tools; geographers should be encouraged to use clips from those films that, it was argued, represented landscapes in as faithful a manner as possible, such that students could gain a sense of what it would be like to experience these places firsthand as if they were “in the field.” In this regard, film was regarded as more successful in its mimeticism than were other media, such as photography, in that film managed to capture movement as well as form and so could be used to represent natural and social processes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Film, Geography and]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/geography_and_film
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