Landscape and film / edited by Martin Lefebvre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lefebvre, Martin.

Series:

AFI film readers.

AFI film readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture locations.

Landscapes in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 361 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This volume of new work will address fundamental questions: What kind of landscape is cinematic landscape? How is cinematic landscape different from landscape painting? How is landscape deployed in the work of such filmmakers as Greenaway, Rossellini, or Antonioni, to name just three? What are differences between the use of landscape in Western filmmaking and in the work of Middle Eastern and Asian filmmakers? And, how is cinematic landscape related to the idea of a national cinema and questions of identity. The first collection on the idea of landscape and film, this volume will present an impressive international cast of contributors, among them are Jacques Aumont, Tom Conley, David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, Peter Rist, and Antonio Costa.

Contents:

The invention of place: Daniele 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-33486-6

1-136-33487-4

1-281-24396-5

9786611243968

0-203-95940-X

9780203959404

OCLC:

143608405