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*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues, I hope you will excuse the self-publicity, but I would like to draw your attention to a publication that came out over the new year period that you may have missed, and which may be of interest to you. Thank you. Title: NARRATIVES OF PLACE IN LITERATURE AND FILM Edited by: Steven Allen and Kirsten Møllegaard Published: Routledge, 2019 ISBN-Hardback: 9781138499928 ISBN-eBook: 9781351013833 ------------------------------------ Narratives of place link people and geographic location with a cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration. Contemporary literature and film often frame narratives with specific geographic locations, which saturate the narrative with cultural meanings in relation to natural and man-made landscapes. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to interrogate such connections to probe how place is narrativized in literature and film. Utilizing close readings of specific filmic and literary texts, all chapters serve to tease out cultural and historical meanings in respect of human engagement with landscapes. Always mindful of national, cultural and topographical specificity, the book is structured around five core themes: Contested Histories of Place; Environmental Landscapes; Cityscapes; The Social Construction of Place; and Landscapes of Belonging. The book brings together considerations of place in respect of Africa, Asia, Australasia, mainland and offshore Europe, and North America to offer an important international perspective. Topics covered include, amongst others, Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories, the writings of Leslie Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie, and narratives of water in Swedish literature, as well as the depiction of landscapes of loss in Tasmanian films, the functioning of songs from Telugu cinema, and the construction of place and non-place in Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2012). For further details on this publication, and a full list of the chapters, please see https://www.routledge.com/Narratives-of-Place-in-Literature-and-Film/Allen-Mollegaard/p/book/9781138499928 ---------------------------------- Steven Allen is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK, where he is also the Programme Leader. Kirsten Møllegaard<https://www.routledge.com/products/search?author=Kirsten%20Møllegaard> is a Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Dr Steven Allen SFHEA Senior Lecturer | Programme Leader Film Studies School of Media and Film University of Winchester United Kingdom SO22 4NR Alwyn Hall East 29 Tel. +44 (0)1962 827152 Staff Page<https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-profiles/allen-1.php> [https://www.winchester.ac.uk/media/content-assets/corporate-imagery/Email-signature.png] Our privacy policy is here<https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/privacy-and-cookie-policy/>. University of Winchester, a private charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales number 5969256. Registered Office: Sparkford Road, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 4NR -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------