Perpetual Expected Place Effect
The tendency to show places as a wider audience might expect to see them, skewing towards stereotype and cliché, as opposed to a more honest, modern, or nuanced showing. This is most often demonstrated in films and television.
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Examples include the movie ‘About Schmidt’, showing actual Lincoln, Nebraska (flat — expected) while purporting to show Lawrence, Kansas (hilly — unexpected). Other examples include the film Transformers, showing the site of Petra (actually in Jordan) to be in Egypt, and Casino Royale purporting to show Madagascar while filming in Nigeria.