Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America: 2015 (Screening Spaces)

Exploration, intertwined with home-seeking, has always defined America. Corbin argues that films about significant cultural landscapes in America evoke a sense of travel for their viewers. These virtual travel experiences from the mid-1970s through the 1990s built a societal map of “popular multiculturalism” through a movie-going experience. Amy Lynn Corbin Introduction 1. The Story of a Land: The Spatial Politics of Early Multiculturalism in Indian Country 2. Primitive Cousins: Roots and Authenticity in the White South 3. The Urban Frontier: From Inner City Tourist to Resident 4. “Home” Turns Otherworldly in the Suburbs 5. Ghosts of Indian Country: Filling in the Map