Aug 22: Tim Cresswell

Tim Cresswell and Deborah Dixon explore geographies of mobility and identity in a chapter in a book which they edited.

Tim has written a great deal about place. His Maxwell Street book is the go-to book for me when considering writing about place - packed with terrific quotes and ideas, and more than a splash of Georges Perec.

In this book, there is a focus on film and the book gathers an interdisciplinary group of authors to explore film and pedagogy.

Reference
Cresswell, Tim, and Deborah Dixon, eds. Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

A significant challenge to the hegemony of the textual metaphor is attempted through the paradigm of mobility, which is put forth as “an element in the play of power and meaning within social and cultural networks of signification” (p. 4). 

The fourteen essays are arranged around mobility, identity, and pedagogy.