TY - JOUR
T1 - Cine-cartography
T2 - The cinematic in Paul Vidal de la Blache
AU - Lindaman, Dana
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - In this paper I argue that early French cinema and human geography were in many ways coextensive, drawing on many of the same resources and virtues of the languages that inform them. Using Paul Vidal de la Blache's 1894 Atlas-général, I argue that Vidal's maps represent the equivalent of individual shots in fi lm and that the relationship between the maps is best understood using early theorizations of montage in cinema. Vidal's own language provides a vocabulary for other scholars including Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, who saw cinema and geography in similar terms. By reading images of France as dynamic rather than static, Vidal provides a mobile composite of information pulled from a host of images that together generate a meaningful narrative of French identity. Such a reading, I argue, means that the mental image of France is not fi xed but open to many possibilities.
AB - In this paper I argue that early French cinema and human geography were in many ways coextensive, drawing on many of the same resources and virtues of the languages that inform them. Using Paul Vidal de la Blache's 1894 Atlas-général, I argue that Vidal's maps represent the equivalent of individual shots in fi lm and that the relationship between the maps is best understood using early theorizations of montage in cinema. Vidal's own language provides a vocabulary for other scholars including Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, who saw cinema and geography in similar terms. By reading images of France as dynamic rather than static, Vidal provides a mobile composite of information pulled from a host of images that together generate a meaningful narrative of French identity. Such a reading, I argue, means that the mental image of France is not fi xed but open to many possibilities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041528038&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85041528038&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/ncf.2017.0015
DO - 10.1353/ncf.2017.0015
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85041528038
SN - 0146-7891
VL - 46
SP - 114
EP - 127
JO - Nineteenth-Century French Studies
JF - Nineteenth-Century French Studies
IS - 1-2
ER -