Taking Place

Contents

Introduction: The Matter of Places Elena Gorfinkel and John David Rhodes

I. Cinematic Style and the Places of Modernity 1. From Venice to the Valley: California Slapstick and the Keaton Comedy Short Charles Wolfe 2. The Eclipse of Place: Rome's EUR from Rossellini to Antonioni John David Rhodes 3. Tales of Times Square: Sexploitation's Secret History of Place Elena Gorfinkel 4. Derek Jarman in the Docklands: The Last of England and Thatcher's London Mark W. Turner

II. Place as Index of Cinema 5. The Cinecitta Refugee Camp, 1944-1950 Noa Steimatsky 6. Right Here in Mason City: The Music Man and Small Town Nostalgia Linda A. Robinson 7. When the Set Becomes Permanent: The Spatial Reconfiguration of Hollywood North Aurora Wallace 8. The Last Place on Earth? Allegories of Deplacialization in Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie Ara Osterweil

III. Geopolitical Displacements 9. The Nonplace of Argento: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Roman Urban History Michael Siegel 10. The Placement of Shadows: What's Inside William Kentridge's Black Box/Chambre Noire? Frances Guerin 11. Into the "Imaginary" and "Real" Place: Stan Douglas's Site-Specific Film and Video Projection Ji-Hoon Kim 12. Doing Away with Words: Synaesthetic Dislocations in Okinawa and Hong Kong Rosalind Galt

IV. (Not) Being There 13. Moving through Images Brian Price 14. Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the Films of George Romero Hugh S. Manon 15. On the Grounds of Television Meghan Sutherland

Acknowledgments Contributors Index