CHRISTOPHER LUKINBEAL Geography
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
Lukinbeal, C., and S. Aitken. 1998. Sex, Violence and the Weather: Male Hysteria, Scale and the Fractal Geographies of Patriarchy. In, Places Through the Body. pp. 356-380. Editors, Heidi Nast and Steve Pile. New York: Routledge.
Aitken, S., and C. Lukinbeal. 1998. Of Heroes, Fools and Fisher Kings: Cinematic Representations of Street Myths and Hysterical Males in the Films of Terry Gilliam. Images of the Streets. pp. 141-159. Editor, Nick Fyfe. New York: Routledge.
Aitken, S., and C. Lukinbeal. 1997. Disassociated Masculinities and Geographies of the Road. In, The Road Movies Book. Editors, Ina Hark and Steve Cohan. pp. 349-370. New York: Routledge.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
Nelson, Elizabeth, David Dow, Christopher Lukinbeal, Ray Farley. 1997. Visual Search Process and the Multivariate Point Symbol. Cartographica 34, 19-33.
Kennedy, C., and C. Lukinbeal. 1997. Towards a Holistic Approach To Geographic Research On Film. Progress in Human Geography 21, 33-50.
Lukinbeal, C., and C. Kennedy. 1993. Dick Tracy's Cityscape. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook, 55: 76-96.
Lukinbeal, C., and Kennedy, C. 1992. Suburban Landscapes of the East Bay. California Geographer, 32: 77-93.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Chris Lukinbeal, John Kaiser, John Ryan, Doug Stow. 2001. Using Remote Sensing, GIS and Visualization Techniques to Optimize Location Management for a Regional Film Production Market. NASA Earth Science Enterprise, Commercial Remote Sensing Program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, John C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529.
Jordan, J. and C. Lukinbeal. 1998. Reading and Understanding Maps. In, The Human Mosaic, An Introduction to Cultural Geography, website (http://www.whfreeman.com/jordan/con_index.htm?99hrm).
Lukinbeal, C. 1998. Projection Change at the National Geographic Society. In, The Human Mosaic, An Introduction to Cultural Geography, website (http://www.whfreeman.com/jordan/index.htm).
BOOK REVIEWS:
Lukinbeal, C. 1999. The Cinematic City, book review. Clarke, David, editor.
New York: Routledge. Reviewed for, The Journal of Historical Geography, 25(2),
273-275.
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
Using GIS and Visualization Techniques to Optimize Location Management for a Regional Film Produciton Market, Association of American Geographers, New York, NY, 2001.
How Landscape Functions in Popular American Cinema. Invited Keynote Speaker, Cinema and the Middle East Conference is part of the Eight Annual Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute of Geography, University of Mainz, Germany, 2000
Hollywood South: San Diego's Place in the Western Film Production Market. New England/St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2000.
Film Production Sites in San Diego, with John Ryan. (poster presentation) ESRI User's Conference. San Diego, CA, 2000.
Revealing Cinematic Space: "On Location" In San Diego. Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000.
The Cinematic City: San Diego as Hollywood's Backlot. Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1999.
Mapping Urban Cinematic Space. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, with Dr. Larry Ford. Reno, NV 1998.
San Diego's Role in the Western Location Production Market. California Geographical Society, with Dr. Larry Ford. Ventura, CA, 1999.
Film, Television and San Diego's Urban Thirdspace. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Flagstaff, AZ, 1998.
Sex, Violence and the Weather: Male Hysteria, Scale and the Fractal Geographies of Patriarchy, with Dr. Stuart Aitken. Association of American Geographers , Boston, Mass, 1998.
Searching For Multivariate Symbols: A Case Study Using Chernoff Faces, with Dr. Elizabeth Nelson, David Dow and Ray Farley. Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass, 1998.
Disciplinary Current in a Geography of the Media, Second Annual Western Geography Graduate Student Conference, San Diego, CA, 1998.
Real-to-Reel Urban Geographies: 'Placing' the Production of Representational Space in an Economic and Industrial Context, California Geographical Society, San Bernardino, CA, 1998.
Male Hysteria and Disassociated Subjectivity, with Dr. Stuart Aitken. International Conference in Critical Geography, Vancouver, BC, 1997.
Technical Issues in GIS (Poster Presentation), California Geographical Society, Ukiah, CA, 1997.
Action, Outreach and Geographic Education: An Outreach Program for the National Geographic Awareness Week, California Geographical Society, Ukiah, CA, 1997.
Male Hysteria and the Production of Patriarchal Scale, West Coast Graduate Student's Conference in Geography, Tucson, AZ, 1997.
A Geography from Media: Bringing the Image Back to the Ground, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Sacramento, CA, 1996.
The Doomed City: Flint, Michigan, The Five Stages of Dying, and Roger and Me, California Geographical Society, Sonora, CA, 1996.
Media, Symbology, Postmodernity: The Significance of Cinematic Representation to Geography, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Sonoma, CA, 1995.
The Function of Place in Popular Movies, California Geographical Society, Fresno, CA, 1995.
Western Films and American Culture: Niles, California as the American West, California Geographical Society, Redding, CA, 1993.
Dick Tracy's Cityscape, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Bellingham, WA, 1993.
Suburban Landscapes in the East Bay, presented at:
o California Geographical Society, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1992.
o California State University Research Competition, San Francisco State
University,
1992.
WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:
Conference Coordinator, California Geographical Society's Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 2000. I was the principal conference organizer responsible for planning and implementing all conference activities. The CGS conference annually attracts over 300 attendees with an annual budget of over $20,000.
Conference Coordinator, Second Annual Western Geography Graduate Student Conference. February 13-15, 1998. San Diego, California. I was one of two principal conference organizers responsible for securing funding, planning events, inviting guest speakers (keynote address by Mike Davis), and handling publicity. The conference had 150 attendees and a budget of approximately $7,000.
Conference Coordinator, Hayward Geographic and Environmental Job Networking Conference, November, 1995. Twenty-five presentations and fifty participants. Grant obtained.
Activities Coordinator, California Geographical Society's Annual Meeting, 1993. Created "Geographic Pictionary" to play following the annual banquet instead of the usual speaker/presentation.
Session Chair and Organizer. Critical Geographies of Mass Media I. Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1999.
Session Organizer. Critical Geographies of Mass Media II. Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1999.
Session Chair. Undergraduate Papers. California Geographical Society, Ventura, CA, 1999.
Session Chair. Philosophy, Theory and Perception. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Flagstaff, AZ, 1998.
Session Chair. Undergraduate Papers. California Geographical Society, San Bernardino, CA, 1998.
Session Chair and Organizer. Images and the Media. Second Annual Western Geography Graduate Student Conference, San Diego, CA, 1998.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
NASA'S ARC Program Grant, "Using Remote Sensing, GIS and Visualization Techniques to Optimize Location Management for a Regional Film Production Market." The Affiliated Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Commercial Remote Sensing Program sponsored this research was presented at the 2001 AAG meeting in New York City.
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
social-urban geography, film geography, applying Remote Sensing and GIS to film-location management systems; GIS in K-12 education.
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Lukinbeal, C. 2000. 'On Location' in San Diego: Film, Television and Urban Thridspace. Unpublished Dissertation, San Diego State University / University of California, Santa Barbara.
INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:
2000. Ph.D. Joint Doctoral Program in Geography, San Diego State University
and University of California, Santa Barbara.