| Description |
208 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: A Brief History of Space -- Pt. 1. Postindustrial Landscapes: Space and the Social Sciences. 2. All's Well in the Warfare State: Daniel Bell. 3. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mediascape: Marshall McLuhan. 4. Everything Solid Melts into Signs: Jean Baudrillard. 5. Mapping on the Left: Jameson, Harvey, Soja, Davis -- Pt. 2. Plotting Postmodern Landscapes: Space and Fiction. 6. Notes from Underground: Thomas Pynchon. 7. Reflections on the 'City of Glass': Paul Auster. 8. Machinescapes/Dreamscapes: Jayne Anne Phillips. 9. Burning Down the House: Toni Morrison -- Pt. 3. Landscapes on the Screen: Spaces and Film. 10. Mapping the City of the Future: Blade Runner. 11. Mapping the Body (I): Alien, Gynophobia and the Corporeal Cartography of Consumerism. 12. Mapping the Body (II): The Terminator, T2 and Testosterone Topography. 13. Cherry-Pie Heaven: David Lynch. 14. Conclusion: From Geographies of Abjection to the Mundus |
| Summary |
Postmodern Cartographies explores spatial representation in a range of texts from the social sciences, prose fiction and cinema. It surveys the geography of post-industrial society as advanced in the work of Daniel Bell, Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard; analyses representations of space in novels by Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Jayne Anne Phillips and Toni Morrison; and, in a key third section, examines sexual politics and body images in science fiction cinema and the films of David Lynch. Jarvis demonstrates an essential continuity between the geographical imagination expressed in so-called postmodern culture and that evident in previous phases in the history of spatial representation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index |
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Filmography: page 202 |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Landscape assessment -- United States.
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Geographical perception -- United States.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Geographical perception in literature.
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| LC no. |
97049258 |
| ISBN |
0312213441 cloth |
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031221345X paperback |
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