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How important are fiction and film as sources of geographic knowledge?
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How important are fiction and film as sources of geographic knowledge? Geographers have only become interested in the study of films and fiction as a source of geographic knowledge in the past 30 years. For studies in landscape and place geographers have preferred to use literature instead of mass media which suggests that there is little geographical interest to be found in the mass media. Some view films are being purely entertainment whose primary purpose is to make money; they don't see them as being reliable sources of geographic knowledge as it can be difficult to make geographical connections between images and the effects of those images on real locations. Film however mediates social knowledge therefore cinematic representations are integral to understanding our place in the world. Hanna (1996) states that; "representations of places in the media play a crucial role for both the development and definition of those places". Through film,...
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