Session Description: This panel probes methodological and theoretical questions related to a materialist-driven approach to film studies. This entails engaging with the ways in which film representations shape and are shaped by everyday life, ideology and power. Questions related to the critical geography of film include: How can critical scholars undertake a material history of the geography of film? What role can archival research play in the evaluation of film content and form, production and consumption? How can scholars critically engage with the spaces, places, mobility and nature of film imagery? How can the political, social, and economic context of film production and consumption be integrated into a critical analysis of film? What openings exist within this medium for cultivating emancipatory politics
and praxis?
