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Author Jansson, André.

Title Strange spaces : explorations into mediated obscurity / edited by André Jansson and Amanda Lagerkvist
Published Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2009]
©2009

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Description xii, 343 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
Contents What is strange about strange spaces? -- Part 1 Scales of Opacity -- Vague spaces -- Domesticated media: hiding, dying or haunting -- The strange space of the body: two dialogues -- Obscure objects of media studies: echo, hotbird and ikonos -- Part 2 Dislocation, Disruption, Disobedience -- Beside myself with looking: the provincial, female spectator as out of place at the Stockholm exhibition 1897 -- La villa rouge: replaying decadence in Shanghai -- Cities of sin, backroads of crime -- Walks in spectral space: East London crime scene tourism -- The soul of the city: heritage architecture, vandalism and the new Bath spa -- Part 3 Secrets and Wonders of Media Spaces -- Death at Broadcasting House -- Communication clinics: Expo 67 and the symbolic power of fixing flows -- Modern moon rising: imagining aerospace in early picture postcards -- Strange exhibitions: museums and art galleries in film -- Hiding in plain sight: cinematic undergrounds
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Environmental psychology.
Geographical perception.
Space and time in mass media.
Space -- Psychological aspects.
Space -- Social aspects.
Space perception.
Space.
Spatial behavior.
SUBJECT Outer space http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096156 -- Social aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002758
Author Jansson, André.
Lagerkvist, Amanda, 1970-
LC no. 2009005400
ISBN 0754674614 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780754674610 (hbk. : alk. paper)