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Making connections
Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, UK A Department of Geography, Open University, UK
As the theme of this special issue of Screen is Space/Place/City and Film, I thought it would be interesting, in lieu of a formal editor's introduction, to establish a 'conversation' between myself, as a representative of film and television studies, and a prominent scholar in the field of geography. It is an attempt to echo the kinds of interaction that have been taking place at a theoretical level between scholars in these fields for some time. I particularly wanted to find out how useful this cross-fertilization has been from a geographer's point of view, and to find out what limitations and possibilities they might identify. I was very pleased when Doreen Massey, Professor in Geography at the Open University, agreed to participate. We decided early on not to limit our focus to the articles in this issue but to approach a series of questions about spaces, places and cities and their relationship to both film and television. The introduction of television was important, partly because my own research is mainly in this area, but also because it tempers, to a degree, the exclusive focus on film of the other articles in this issue. What follows is a series of observations and responses conducted - appropriately enough - not face to face, but through the fax machine, one of those electronic technologies that have (for some) radically altered the experience of time and space in the modern world.
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