Landscape and Film

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Martin Lefebvre
Routledge, 2007 M05 7 - 394 pages
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? 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 Jacques Aumont, Tom Conley, David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, Peter Rist, and Antonio Costa.
 

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Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
danièle huillet and jeanmarie straubs Moses and Aaron Jacques Aumont
Martin Lefebvre
notes on landscapes in d w griffith 19081912 Jean Mottet
sublime landscapes in the american cinema Maurizia Natali
the new desert in arab independent cinema Laura u Marks
gallipoli and other mediterranean landscapes in amateur films c 19281960 Heather Nicholson ...
Peter Rist
the genesis of early english screenscapes David b Clarke and Marcus a Doel ...
trips around the world as early film topic 18961914 Antonio Costa
peter greenaways landscapes by numbers Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy
on anthony mann Tom Conley
desert iconographies in michelangelo antonionis Zabriskie Point Matthew Gandy ...
Contributors

landscape in the films of david rimmer Catherine Russell

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Martin Lefebvre is Associate Professor in the Mel Oppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal.

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