TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping Australia
T2 - Cinematic cartographies of (Dis)location
AU - Mills, Jane
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = Senses of Cinema. ISSNs: 1443-4059;
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - What stories do the maps in Baz Luhrmann's film, Australia (2008), tell? Deployed in most films to establish a "national geography", maps can also question the very boundaries that they depict. Filmed maps serve to locate and fix places and people at the same time as they mobilise, thereby introducing notions of dislocation and relocation. While cinematic cartography locates the film narrative, it also asks audiences to consider where they are in the narrative and in doing so reminds them that they are not where the map says it is taking place and that the story that is said it be there is, in fact, nowhere. Or perhaps, elsewhere. From a perspective of cinematic cartography this article invites a consideration of the relationship of the screen image to time, place, space and mobility by examining the points at which the maps inscribed in Australia reveal a transnational cinema. These maps, it is argued, offer itineraries allowing us to trace cultural flows as they travel to and from global, national and local cinemas, revealing the geopolitical milestones that map notions of home and away.
AB - What stories do the maps in Baz Luhrmann's film, Australia (2008), tell? Deployed in most films to establish a "national geography", maps can also question the very boundaries that they depict. Filmed maps serve to locate and fix places and people at the same time as they mobilise, thereby introducing notions of dislocation and relocation. While cinematic cartography locates the film narrative, it also asks audiences to consider where they are in the narrative and in doing so reminds them that they are not where the map says it is taking place and that the story that is said it be there is, in fact, nowhere. Or perhaps, elsewhere. From a perspective of cinematic cartography this article invites a consideration of the relationship of the screen image to time, place, space and mobility by examining the points at which the maps inscribed in Australia reveal a transnational cinema. These maps, it is argued, offer itineraries allowing us to trace cultural flows as they travel to and from global, national and local cinemas, revealing the geopolitical milestones that map notions of home and away.
KW - Open access version available
KW - Australian cinema
KW - Cinematic cartography
KW - Geocriticism
KW - Location/dislocation
M3 - Article
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Senses of Cinema
JF - Senses of Cinema
SN - 1443-4059
IS - 55
ER -