Cinema is seen as ‘an essentially geographic art, a way of “writing the world”’, according to D. Strauch (Geography of Film, Geog. 425 syllabus), for film contributes to the production of meaning, culture, economy, and identity. Film is important to geography because it mediates social knowledge, reinforces ideological constructions of the status quo, and is an active agent of hegemony (Lukinbeal in R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, eds 2009).
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~strauch/Geog425/Geog425.html Website for Geog. 425 syllabus—a really useful resource.