Place and Cinema
Place and the Cinema
The Place and Cinema project will be an ongoing analysis of the role of Place in film and video in many incarnations.
Each entry will choose a specific place as its theme and will analyse a variety of artistic encounters in the form of ethnographic, documentary, and feature films or video. For example, the entry on New Orleans can include the work of Werner Herzog (Bad Lietenant), Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law) Alan Lomax (The Land Where the Blues Began) and David Simon (Treme). In some cases the place may be so identified with a particluar director (such as Monument Valley and John Ford) that the entire entry will be devoted to the work of one artist in particular. Some entries may be in the form of a detailed essay while others may take a simpler format of lists, weblinks, photo collections, video clips or even original video projects.
The following is a list of themes and the works associated with specific places. The list will certainly change and some entries will be more detailed than others. Suggestions and collaborative submissions are strongly encouraged!
Monument Valley
- John Ford
- Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Los Angeles
- Billy Wilder
- David Lynch
Berlin
- Billy Wilder (One, Two Three)
- Rainer Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz)
- Wim Wenders (Wings Over Berlin)
New Orleans
- Werner Herzog (post Katrina) Bad Lieutenant
- Jim Jarmusch (pre Katrina) Down By Law
- Alan Lomax (The Land Where the Blues Began)
- David Simon (Treme)
New York
- Woody Allen
- Harmony Korine (Kids)
- Martin Scorsese
Boston
- Martin Scorsese
- Troy Duffy (Boondocks Saints)
Ireland
- John Ford (The Quiet Man, The Informer)
- Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday)
Paris
- Jean Luc Godard
- Agnes Varda
- Vincente Minnelli (An American in Paris)
Chicago
- John Hughes
Las Vegas
- Ocean’s 11 (remake and original)
- Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
Austin
- Richard Linklater
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Vermont
- David Mamet
Appalachia
- Harmony Korine (Gummo)
- Appalshop filmmakers (Stranger With a Camera)
- Alan Lomax (Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old)
- John Cohen (That High Lonesome Sound, End of an Old Song)
- John Sayles (Matewan)
- Rory Kennedy (American Hollow)
- Barbara Koppel (Harlan County USA)
- John Boorman (Deliverance)
