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Mapping Cultures pp 68–84Cite as

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Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film

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Couldn’t an exciting film be made from the map of Paris? From the unfolding of its various aspects in temporal succession? From the compression of a centuries-long movement of streets, boulevards, arcades, and squares into the space of half an hour? And does the flâneur do anything different? (Benjamin 1999: 83)

A frame for cultural mappings, film is modern cartography. (Bruno 2002: 71)

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Roberts, L. (2012). Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film. In: Roberts, L. (eds) Mapping Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137025050_4

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