Imagined Landscapes – Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives Stadler

Imagined LandscapesGeovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives\nAuthor(s): Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, Stephen Carleton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253018380, 978-0253018380\nSynopsis\nImagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape. It offers fresh insights on cultural topography and spatial history by examining the technical and conceptual challenges of georeferencing fictional and fictionalized places in narratives. Among the items disc.