Landscape and the moving image / Catherine Elwes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elwes, Catherine, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes in art.

Landscapes in motion pictures.

Video art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists' film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of nature's aesthetics undermines commitment to ecology. 30b/w illus.

Contents:

Cover

Landscape and the Moving Image

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

The semiotics of the view

Eco-critical practices

The indivisibility of the human subject and nature

The text

The parameters

Author 's note

2 The Terms of Engagement

Landscape, space and place

Inside and outside

The ethnographic eye and documentary: Negotiations of the real

The contested status of the real

Taking a step back - crossing over

3 The Invention of Landscape

Landscape, the antithesis of city life

The sublime, the spiritual and the indifference of nature

The picturesque and the pastoral

The return of the picturesque and the romantic sublime

4 The Social Construction of Landscape

National identity, society and history

Framing trauma in the landscape

Property, ownership, colonialism and class identity

5 Landscape Subjectivities

Do you see what I see?

The perceiving subject

A template for seeing, touching, hearing and feeling

Emotion, affect and sensation in nature

6 Painted Landscapes

The tools of the trade

Taking the eye for a walk - perspectives in painting

The great outdoors

7 Frames and Sequences

Photographing the view

Slide-tape: Landscape in series

8 Talking Pictures: Narrative, Time, Colour and Sound

Nature caught in the act' 1

Narrative film: Background and foreground

The time base

Colour and black-and-white

Sound and silence

9 Talking Pictures: Framing the View and the Spectator

Framing the view

Point of view: The restless eye

The spectator 9

10 Artists' Moving Image

Unmade Narratives' 1 : Experimental film

Video: The travelling companion

Digital media: No man 's land

Photogénie and the entanglement of matter

11 Weather-Blown Film.

River Yar (1971-72), William Raban and Chris Welsby

Theory: Clouds and clocks

Wind Vane (1972), Chris Welsby

Feedback: Cybernetics

12 Being-With: Rocks, Sea and Sky

La Région Centrale (1971), Michael Snow

Aspect (2004), Emily Richardson

Sea-changed film: R.V. Ramani and David Gatten

This Is My Land (2006), Ben Rivers

Dawn Burn (1975-76), Mary Lucier

Interwoven Motion (2004), Chris Meigh-Andrews

The wide blue yonder: Semiconductor, Susan Collins, James Turrell and James Benning

13 Getting the Shivers: Empathic Projection and the Elements

Jack Lauder and Lloyd Branson, Zacharias Kunuk, O ...

14 Anti-Terrain: Australasia and the 'Vexed' Question of Landscape 1

Preconceptions

The antipodean gaze

Refiguring landscapes

Imagining a future

15 Landscape and Identity Politics

Signatures

Slavery and the African Diaspora: The Black body in the landscape

Mother Earth

Queering the landscape

Fault lines - masculinity

16 Performing the Landscape

Acting out in Merrie England

Performing matter

Shifting the scenery

17 Animals

A pantomime of animals

Captive animals: A transaction of the gaze

Companion animals'

Cruelty to animals

Discreet courtship

18 Postscript

References

Index

Colour Plate

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78938-570-9

1-78938-569-5