ABSTRACT
This chapter follows an autoethnographic pathway through critical terrain in which the relationship between film, space and place is explored and unpacked. It does this through a process of sustained reflection on one film, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (Vincent Ward, 1988), and its imbricated geographies of place that interlace with the author’s recollections of travel to New Zealand in the early 1990s and of seeking out a key location used in the film. From these autoethnographic and autobiogeographical starting points, the chapter unfolds around discussion that probes the different ways we might understand and map ‘cinematic geographies’, a concept that is loosely framed here as a constellation of approaches that in some way address the relationship between film and place.
