Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Matter of Places -- Part I. Cinematic Style and the Places of Modernity -- 1. From Venice to the Valley: California Slapstick and the Keaton Comedy Short -- 2. The Eclipse of Place: Rome's EUR from Rossellini to Antonioni -- 3. Tales of Times Square: Sexploitation's Secret History of Place -- 4. Derek Jarman in the Docklands: The Last of England and Thatcher's London -- Part II. Place as Index of Cinema -- 5. The Cinecittà Refugee Camp, 1944-50 -- 6. Right Here in Mason City: The Music Man and Small-Town Nostalgia -- 7. When the Set Becomes Permanent: The Spatial Reconfiguration of Hollywood North -- 8. The Last Place on Earth? Allegories of Deplacialization in Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie -- Part III. Geopolitical Displacements -- 9. The Nonplace of Argento: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Roman Urban History -- 10. The Placement of Shadows: What's Inside William Kentridge's Black Box/Chambre Noire? -- 11. Into the "Imaginary" and "Real" Place: Stan Douglas's Site-Specific Film and Video Projection -- 12. Doing Away with Words: Synaesthetic Dislocations in Okinawa and Hong Kong -- Part IV. (Not) Being There -- 13. Moving through Images -- 14. Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the Films of George Romero -- 15. On the Grounds of Television -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.