The satellite, the Screen, and the city: On Google Earth and the Life Narrative

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 659-672

  Laforest, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arcade Fire; city; Google Earth; interface; literary studies; Musil; nostalgia; storytelling; suburbia; urban space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991396784     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: 1460356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367877915595886     Document Type: Article

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