An Open Resource Since 2003
Exploring moviegoing
experiences through a
historic lens
Our Mission
Mapping Movies seeks to explore the landscape of moving pictures, because movies come and go, theaters rise and fall, and the audience has to be in place.
The project aims to stimulate research and discovery at the intersection of cinema history, social history, spatial humanities, and cultural geography. Through the heuristic use of GIS tools, Mapping Movies explores the relations between media infrastructure, landscape, community, demography, transportation, modernization, marginalization, and memories of place. It also tests the limits of mapping as a method and mode for historical research and engagement.
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Year Founded
Movie Venues
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Recent Posts
ArcGIS StoryMap:
Student Research Project, Nashua NH
Undergraduate Communication Arts students in “Film History: Theory & Method” at UNH Manchester collaborated on a research project on the history of movie theaters in Nashua, New Hampshire.
ArcGIS StoryMap:
Student Research Project, Manchester NH
Undergraduate Communication Arts students at UNH Manchester collaborated on a project resulting in a 90-minute self-guided walking tour created with ArcGIS StoryMaps.
Article Publication:
Mapping Flat, Deep & Slow
Happy to share word of an exciting new issue of TMG Journal for Media History (Vol. 23, No. 1/2, 2020) devoted to the study of “localities” and comparative histories of moviegoing.