Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This book addresses questions, such as: What kind of landscape is cinematic landscape? How is cinematic landscape different from landscape painting? The...
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Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This book addresses questions, such as: What kind of landscape is cinematic landscape? How is cinematic landscape different from landscape painting? The invention of place: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub's Moses and Aaron / Jacques Aumont -- Between setting and landscape in the cinema / Martin Lefebvre -- Toward a genealogy of the American landscape: notes on some landscapes in D.W. Griffith (1908-1912) / Jean Mottet -- The course of the empire: sublime landscapes in the American cinema / Maurizia Natali -- Asphalt nomadism: the new desert in Arab independent cinema / Laura U. Marks -- The inhabited view: landscape in the films of David Rimmer / Catherine Russell -- Sites of meaning: Gallipoli and other Mediterranean landscapes in amateur films, (c. 1928-1960) / Heather Nicholson -- The presence (and absence) of landscape in silent east Asian films / Peter Rist -- From flatland to vernacular relativity: the genesis of early English screenscapes / David B. Clarke and Marcus A. Doel -- Landscape and archive: trips around the world as early film topic (1896-1914) / Antonio Costa -- A walk through heterotopia: Peter Greenaway's landscapes by numbers / Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy -- Landscape and perception: on Anthony Mann / Tom Conley -- The cinematic void: desert iconographies in Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point / Matthew Gandy.