Postmodern cartographies : the geographical imagination in contemporary American culture
‘Postmodern Cartographies focuses on contemporary America, and does a fine job of reading the theories of the space to be found in Jean Baudrillard and others against a selection of novels and films.’ TLS
Criticism, interpretation, etc
208 pages ; 22 cm
9780745312903, 9780745312859, 9780312213459, 074531290X, 0745312853, 031221345X
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1 Introduction: A Brief History of SpacePart 1 : Postindustrial Landscapes: Space and the Social Sciences2 All's Well in the Warfare State: Daniel Bell3 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Media: Marshall McLuhan4 Everything Solid Melts into Signs: Jean Baudrillard5 Mapping on the Left: Jameson, Harvey, Soja, DavisPart 2 : Plotting Postmodern Landscapes: Space and Fiction6 Notes from Underground: Thomas Pynchon7 Reflections on the ' City of Glass': Paul Auster8 Machinescapes/Dreamscapes: Jayne Anne Phillips9 Burning Down the House: Toni MorrisonPart 3: Landscapes on the Screen: Space and Film 10 Mapping the City of the Future: Blade Runner11 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 Lynch14 Conclusion: From Geographies of Abjection to the MundusBibliographyNotes and ReferencesIndex