Fantasy Cartography

Monday, December 18, 2017 to Friday, December 22, 2017

Image via Flickr Creative Commons license by Jeff

Sound Mapping Imaginary Worlds

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Adventures in 8.5x11

By Michael Iantorno

Friday, December 15, 2017

1 comment

Navigating Emotional Landscapes through DIY Cartography in Stranger Things Season 2

By Mihaela Mihailova

Friday, December 15, 2017

1 comment

Giving Fans Latitude

By Sierra Laddusaw

Thursday, December 14, 2017

1 comment

Mapping Kanto Region Over a Town Near You: Pokémon Go and Fantasy in the Everyday

By Jamie Henthorn

Friday, December 15, 2017

1 comment

Contributors

Andrew Kemp

PhD Student, Moving Image StudiesGeorgia State University

Tanya Zuk

Ph.D. candidate, School of Film, Media & TheaterGeorgia State University

Michael Iantorno

Student - Media Studies (MA)Concordia University

Mihaela Mihailova

Postdoctoral Fellow in Film StudiesMichigan State University

Sierra Laddusaw

Map LibrarianTexas A&M University Libraries

Jamie Henthorn

Catawba College

Recent comments

Re: From Understanding Mother to Hero Father: the Story of Ferdinand the Bull

I haven't seen this

By Filipa Antunes

Friday, September 20, 2019 - 12:18

I haven't seen this adaptation, but this is an interesting way of reading Disney's choices about (not) representing mothers. Do you think they were trying to reach fathers specifically, or promoting a new version of masculinity to young boys (and...
Re: Guilty mothers and innocent children

Thanks for your thought,

By Filipa Antunes

Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 15:19

Thanks for your thought, Berit. I'm glad you mentioned Hays' work; her book is an excellent analysis of the start of the intensive attachment-style parenting movement. There's some other work which develops her conclusions further, most of it...
Re: Guilty mothers and innocent children

A woman's guilt is never done

By Berit Åström

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 07:22

Thank you Filipa for this thoughprovoking post. Not having seen the third film, I wasn't aware of this trend, but it very interesting that the representation of the child changes, whereas the mother's guilt stays the same. As you note, the films...
Re: Motherhood in Pieces

Sounds of mothering

By Berit Åström

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 07:13

Thanks for raising these enmeshed questions of voice, self-expression, motherhood and violence. These narratives certainly make one think about what seems like perennial and unchanging demands and restraints placed on mothers.
Re: A Picture of Freedom?

This is a complicated issue ...

By Rebecca Adelman

Monday, September 16, 2019 - 19:44

Thanks, Andrea, for sharing your experience. I can only imagine how complicated this must feel as a parent. I talk a bit about the question of children's classroom encounters with images like this in a couple of articles and my recent...