Journal of Cultural Geography articles from September 2005

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from September 2005

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2005... The cover photo on the previous issue was inadvertently altered and blurred during the printing process. Allen Press apologizes for this and accepts full responsibility for this error.

Engaging the cinematic landscape.
September 22, 2005... With this special series of papers, we engage the relationship between cinema and landscape. While other geographic collections about film have highlighted themes such as the city (Clarke 1997), mobility (Cresswell and Dixon 2002), pedagogy...

Cinematic landscapes.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. 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 space. Landscape gives meaning to cinematic events and...

Forget the Alamo: the border as place in John Sayles' Lone Star.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. Mexicans have been pejorative in the American conception and mythologizing of the Mexican American borderland. Part of that vision has been shaped by popular cinema. John Sayles' Lone Star is examined as a critical case study that...

L.A. noir.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. Between utopian visions of a profoundly suburban American idyll that appeared in gallery spreads in magazines and pompous architectural journal epistles in the 1920s and '30s and the epically ignorant and sophomoric self-satisfaction...

Oh, the places they'll go! Mobility, place and landscape in the film This is Nowhere.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. Filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis presents an ironic and strangely dissonant interpretation of American culture in the documentary This is Nowhere, an expose of RV travelers who circumnavigate the country "camping" in Wal-Mart parking lots....

Range wars: the plains frontier of Boys Don't Cry.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. In the mythology of the American West, range wars pitted ranchers against farmers, insiders versus outsiders, each struggling to control access to land, each fighting to preserve the freedom and opportunities that first drew them to...

Nurturing nature and cinematic experience: the American landscape and the rural female community.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. The Western film genre fosters the mythic view of America as a feminized Eden where one can regenerate or recreate oneself. Westerns typically depict the American countryside as though it were simply a gorgeous framing device for the...

Appalachian Folkways.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Appalachian Folkways. By John B. Rehder. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Preface, notes, glossary, references, and index, x+353 pp. $39.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-8018-7879-9. In Appalachian Folkways, geographer John B....

Culture, Land, and Legacy: Perspectives on Carl O. Sauer and Berkeley School Geography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Culture, Land, and Legacy: Perspectives on Carl O. Sauer and Berkeley School Geography. Edited by Kent Mathewson and Martin S. Kenzer. Baton Rouge: Geosciences Publication. Louisiana State University, 2003. Foreword, introduction, and notes on...

Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala. By Kit Anderson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Acknowledgments, appendix, notes, references, and index, xiii+183 pp. $19.95 paper....

Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas. By James R. Shortridge. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. List of illustrations, preface, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. xxiv+480 pp. $25.95 hardback. ISBN 0-700-61312-9....

For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities. By AbdouMaliq Simone. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Acknowledgments, notes, references, and index. x+297 pp. $23.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8223-3445-3. This is a beautifully...

De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out. By Steven Flusty. New York: Routledge, 2004. Introduction, bibliography, and index, vii+235 pp. $21.95 paper. ISBN: 0-415-94538-0. According to Steven Flusty's intriguing and...

Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. By Catherine Gudis. New York: Routledge, 2004. Introduction, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, illustration credits, and index, viii+333 pp. $22.00 paper. ISBN: 0-415-93455-9....

Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Preface, introduction, notes, and index, xiii+293 pp. $34.95 cloth. ISBN: 0-8139-2266-6. The preface...

Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies. By Melanie K. Smith. London: Routledge, 2003. Preface, acknowledgments, and index. xi+195 pp. paper. ISBN: 0-415-25638-0. The interrelationship between tourism and culture is complex. Tourism, while...