Cinema and landscape

The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. This book frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.

Introduction- cinema and landscape / Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner. Landscape and the fantasy of moving pictures: early cinema's phantom rides / Tom Gunning. 'One foot in the air?' Landscape in the Soviet and Russian road movie / Emma Widdis. Landscape of the mind: the indifferent earth in Werner Herzog's films / Brad Prager. Visions of Italy: the sublime, the postmodern and the apocalyptic / William Hope. Landscape in Spanish cinema / Marvin D'Lugo. Landscape and Irish cinema / Martin McLoone. The ownership of woods and water: landscapes in British cinema 1930-1960 / Sue Harper. Filming the (post- )colonial landscape: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988) and Beau travail (1998) / Susan Hayward. Landscaping the revolution: the political and social geography of Cuba reflected in its cinema / Bob Britton. Landscapes of meaning in cinema: two Indian examples / Wimal Dissanayake. The geography of cinema- Zimbabwe / Martin Mhando. Crises, economy and landscape: the modern film face of new China / Kate Taylor. Japanese cinema and landscape / Paul Spicer. A version of beauty and terror: Australian cinematic landscapes / Graeme Harper. Battlefields of vision: New Zealand filmscapes / Jonathan Rayner. The landscapes of Canada's features: articulating nation and nature / Jim Leach. Science fiction/fantasy films, fairy tales and control: landscape stereotypes on a wilderness to ultra-urban continuum / Christina Kennedy, Tianna and Melisa Kennedy

Af indholdet: S. 89-102: Landscape of the mind: the indifferent earth in Werner Herzog's films / Brad Prager. -- S. 161-176: Filming the (post- )colonial landscape: Claire Denis' Chocolat and Beau travail / Susan Hayward. -- S. 189-202: landscapes of meaning in cinema: two indian examples / Wimal Dissanayake.