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I'm looking for a term I'm not sure exists. I'd be willing to make it up, but I'm doing a bad job.
What's the term for books that people enjoy chiefly because they've lived where the story is set? For films that are enjoyable mostly because you're already familiar with the scenery?
Lisa had to read the first Twilight book because she'd lived in Forks. She has a similar response to Carl Hiassen's books after working as a ranger in the Everglades, and a bit of the same feeling about reading The Orchid Thief, which interviews people she knew in Florida.
It's the "Hey, I can see my house from here" response. It's a natural feeling, and it's common enough. I'm not entirely immune, but I'm considerably less susceptible to the response than people I hang out with.
I'm not trying to peg all stories and films that are set in one's neighborhood or turf with the same term. I'm talking mostly about stories and films that are worth remembering *only* because they're set on ground you're already familiar with. Given our time on Kauai, the Harrison Ford/Anne Heche film Six Days, Seven Nights is a perfect example for Lisa: she loves recognizing beautiful places we know from hiking and hanging out. (Me, I'm too irritated by the rest of the film to goob at the scenery.)
So that's the response I'd like to find a catchy word for, the emotion that makes an otherwise terrible story worthwhile because it reminds you of something like home. Geocentric, place-based, geophilic? No, nothing there. Suggestions?
What's the term for books that people enjoy chiefly because they've lived where the story is set? For films that are enjoyable mostly because you're already familiar with the scenery?
Lisa had to read the first Twilight book because she'd lived in Forks. She has a similar response to Carl Hiassen's books after working as a ranger in the Everglades, and a bit of the same feeling about reading The Orchid Thief, which interviews people she knew in Florida.
It's the "Hey, I can see my house from here" response. It's a natural feeling, and it's common enough. I'm not entirely immune, but I'm considerably less susceptible to the response than people I hang out with.
I'm not trying to peg all stories and films that are set in one's neighborhood or turf with the same term. I'm talking mostly about stories and films that are worth remembering *only* because they're set on ground you're already familiar with. Given our time on Kauai, the Harrison Ford/Anne Heche film Six Days, Seven Nights is a perfect example for Lisa: she loves recognizing beautiful places we know from hiking and hanging out. (Me, I'm too irritated by the rest of the film to goob at the scenery.)
So that's the response I'd like to find a catchy word for, the emotion that makes an otherwise terrible story worthwhile because it reminds you of something like home. Geocentric, place-based, geophilic? No, nothing there. Suggestions?