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This volume argues that the mapping of stories, movement and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed. The authors in this collection reflect upon the main characteristics and evolutions of story and motion mapping, from the figurative news and history maps that were mass-produced in early modern Europe, through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century flow maps that appeared in various atlases, up to the digital and interactive motion and personalised maps that are created today. Rather than presenting a clear and homogeneous history from the past up until the present, this book offers a toolbox for understanding and interpreting the complex interplays and links between narrative, motion and maps.

Cartography --- Historiography. --- Maps --- Digital mapping. --- History. --- Social aspects. --- cartography - historical cartography - transport history - visual narratives. --- Cartography.

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This book discusses the direction of changes in contemporary culture at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in Poland on the example of mutual relationships between literature and the media, such as film, radio, TV and the Internet. The interdisciplinary approach adopted by the author combines literary and media studies with the perspectives of social communication, anthropology and sociology of culture. The book focuses on topics such as reconfiguration of culture, expansion of the media, situation of literature and the central place of audio-visual parallels (auteur film, TV series, PC games). The author notes that both literature and the media are situated between art and communication today and both share the meta-cultural role of natural languages.

Mass media and literature. --- Literature and mass media --- Literature --- 1989 --- Analogue/digital --- Audio-visual narratives --- Codes of culture --- Contemporary changes in culture --- Hopfinger --- Literatura --- Media --- Natural language --- Naukowa --- Oficyna --- Real/virtual --- roku --- Varieties of literary book

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How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch. Ranging from D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to James Cameron's Avatar, and ending with an epilogue on digital media, Closely Watched Films focuses on exemplary works of fourteen film directors whose careers together span the history of the narrative film. Lively and down-to-earth, this concise introduction provides a broad, complete, and yet specific picture of visual narrative techniques that will increase readers' excitement about and knowledge of the possibilities of the film medium. Shot-by-shot analyses of short passages from each film ground theory in concrete examples. Fabe includes original and well-informed discussions of Soviet montage, realism and expressionism in film form, classical and modern sound theory, the classic Hollywood film, Italian neorealism, the French New Wave, auteur theory, modernism and postmodernism in film, political cinema, feminist film theory and practice, and narrative experiments in new digital media. Encompassing the earliest silent films as well as those that exploit the most recent technological innovations, this book gives us the particulars of how film-arguably the most influential of contemporary forms of representation-constitutes our pleasure, influences our thoughts, and informs our daily reality. Updated to include a discussion of 3-D and advanced special effects, this tenth anniversary edition is an essential film studies text for students and professors alike.

Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Aesthetics --- Film criticism --- Evaluation. --- Aesthetics. --- History and criticism --- analytical tools. --- auteur theory. --- avatar. --- classic films. --- classical hollywood film. --- classical sound theory. --- digital media. --- expressionism in film. --- feminist film theory. --- feminist theory. --- film history. --- film medium. --- film scholarship. --- film studies. --- film theory. --- film. --- french new wave film. --- hollywood. --- italian neorealism. --- modern sound theory. --- modernism in film. --- narrative film. --- political cinema. --- postmodernism in film. --- realism in film. --- shot by shot analysis. --- soviet montage. --- special effects. --- the birth of a nation. --- visual narratives.