Publications

Books and Edited Proceedings

LOCATING THE MOVING IMAGE: NEW APPROACHES TO FILM AND PLACE, edited by Julia Hallam and Les Roberts (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). 

FILM, MOBILITY AND URBAN SPACE: A CINEMATIC GEOGRAPHY OF LIVERPOOL, Les Roberts, (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012).
Nominated for Nominated for 2012 Jane Jacobs Book Award, Urban Communication Foundation.

MAPPING CULTURES: PLACE, PRACTICE, PERFORMANCE, edited by Les Roberts, (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2012).

THE CITY AND THE MOVING IMAGE: URBAN PROJECTIONS, edited by Les Roberts and Richard Koeck, (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010).
Nominated for 2011 Jane Jacobs Book Award, Urban Communication Foundation.

CITIES IN FILM: ARCHITECTURE, URBAN SPACE AND THE MOVING IMAGE, edited by Les Roberts, Julia Hallam, Richard Koeck, and Robert Kronenburg, (Liverpool: Liverpool School of Architecture, 2008). ISBN 978–0–9557884– 1–3.

Journal articles

Les Roberts. 2014. 'The Bulger Case: A Spatial Story', in Special Issue on ‘Cartography and Narratives’, S. Caquard and W. Cartwright (eds.), The Cartographic Journal, Vol 51 (2) (forthcoming).

Les Roberts and Ryan Shand. 2013. ‘In Search of Pleasures Past: Re-framing the Local’, Les Roberts and Ryan Shand, practice-based publication (documentary film and supporting article), Screenworks 4
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Julia Hallam. 2012. ‘Civic Visions: Mapping the City film 1900-1960’, in Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol 53 (1), pp 37-58.
Civic Visions: Mapping the City film 1900-1960

Les Roberts. 2012. ‘Another Space: Gleaning the Urban Littoral’, in Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice, Vol 4 (1), Special Issue on ‘Liminal Landscapes’, H Andrews (ed), pp. 94-100.
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Julia Hallam and Les Roberts. 2011. ‘Mapping, Memory and the City: Archives, Databases and Film Historiography, in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 14 (3), pp. 355-372.
Mapping, Memory and the City: Archives, Databases and Film Historiography

Julia Hallam. 2010. ‘Film, Space and Place: Researching a City in Film’ in New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol 8 (3), pp 277-296.
Film, Space and Place: Researching a City in Film

Les Roberts. 2010. ‘Dis/embedded Geographies of Film: Virtual Panoramas and the Touristic Consumption of Liverpool Waterfront’, in Space and Culture, Vol 13 (1), pp. 54-74 (2010).
Dis/embedded Geographies of Film: Virtual Panoramas and the Touristic Consumptio

Les Roberts. 2010. ‘Making Connections: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity in Liverpool and Merseyside Amateur Transport Films’, in Mobilities, Vol 5 (1), pp. 83-109 (2010).
Making Connections

Julia Hallam. 2007. ‘Mapping city space: independent filmmakers as urban gazetteers’, in Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol 4 (2), pp 276-284.
Mapping city space

Book chapters

Les Roberts. 2014. ‘Mobilising the Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice’, in B. Fraser (ed), Marxism and Urban Culture (forthcoming).

Julia Hallam and Les Roberts. 2014. ‘Mapping the City in Film’, in I Gregory and A Geddes (eds), Towards Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (forthcoming, 2014).

Julia Hallam. 2013. ‘Liverpool: City of Memories and Subversive Dreams’ (Introduction) in C. Whelan and J. Connolly (eds) World Film Locations: Liverpool, Bristol: Intellect.

Les Roberts. 2013. ‘The Last of Liverpool: Liminal Journeys’, in C. Whelan and J. Conolly (eds.) World Film Locations: Liverpool (Bristol: Intellect).

Les Roberts and Julia Hallam. 2013. ‘Locating the Moving Image: Outline of a New Empiricism’, in J Hallam and L Roberts (eds), Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).

Ryan Shand. 2013. ‘Retracing the Local: Amateur Cine Culture and Oral Histories’, in J. Hallam and L. Roberts (eds), Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).

Julia Hallam. 2013. ‘Mapping the ‘City’ Film 1930-1980’ in J. Hallam, and L. Roberts. (eds) (2013) Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Les Roberts. 2012. ‘Mapping Cultures: a Spatial Anthropology’ in L. Roberts (ed.)

Les Roberts. 2012. ‘Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film’, in L. Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance, Basingstoke: Palgrave (2012).

Les Roberts. 2011. ‘Regeneration, Mobility and Contested Space: Cultural Reflections on a City in Transition’, in J Harris and R Williams (eds), Regenerating Culture and Society: Art, Architecture and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City-Branding, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Les Roberts and Richard Koeck. 2010. ‘Introduction: Projecting the Urban’, in R Koeck and L Roberts (eds), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Julia Hallam. 2010. ‘City of Change and Challenge: the cine societies’ response to re-development in Liverpool in the 1960s’ in R Koeck and L Roberts (eds), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp 69-87.

Les Roberts. 2010. ‘Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption and Cinematographic Tourism’, in R Koeck and L Roberts (eds), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Ryan Shand, 2010. ‘Visions of Community: The Post-War Housing Problem in Sponsored
and Amateur Films’, in R Koeck and L Roberts (eds), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Robert Kronenburg. 2010. ‘Informing Contemporary Architectural and Urban Design with
Historic Filmic Evidence’ in R Koeck and L Roberts (eds), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Richard Koeck. 2010. ‘Cine-Montage: the spatial editing of cities’, in R Koeck and L Roberts (eds), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Les Roberts. 2010. ‘World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time-Space Compression in Alex Cox’s Liverpool’, in P Burns and J Lester (eds), Tourism and Visual Culture Volume 1: Theories and Concepts, Wallingford: CABI.

Ryan Shand. 2009. ‘Amateur Cinema Re-Located: Localism in Fact and Fiction’, in Ian
Craven (ed.) Movies on Home Ground: Explorations in Amateur Cinema, Newcastle
upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 156-181.

Ryan Shand. 2008 ‘Theorizing Amateur Cinema: Limitations and Possibilities’, in The
Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Vol 8 (2), pp.
36-60.

Les Roberts and Richard Koeck. 2007. ‘The Archive City: Reading Liverpool’s Urban Landscape Through Film’, (co-authored with Richard Koeck), in C. Grunenberg and R. Knifton (eds), Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
The Archive City

Conference presentations / invited seminars

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