Landscape and Film

Landscape and Film
Title Landscape and Film PDF eBook
Author Martin Lefebvre
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 396
Release 2006
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0415975557

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This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play. The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.

Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts

Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts
Title Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts PDF eBook
Author Salim Kemal
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 296
Release 1993
Genre Art
ISBN 9780521558549

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A distinguished group of scholars here probes the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature in a discussion enriched with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. Exploring the interrelation among nature, beauty and art, they show that natural beauty is impregnated with concepts derived from the arts and from particular accounts of nature. The distinction and relation between art and nature are questioned, and the volume culminates in philosophical studies of the role of scientific understanding, engagement and appreciation in aesthetics.

Landscape and Film

Landscape and Film
Title Landscape and Film PDF eBook
Author Martin Lefebvre
Publisher Routledge
Pages 396
Release 2007-05-07
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1136334866

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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.

Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film
Title Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film PDF eBook
Author Giuliana Minghelli
Publisher Routledge
Pages 264
Release 2014-06-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1135104816

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This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural production in the service of memorialization and comprehension for a nation that had neither a Nuremberg nor a formal process of reconciliation. Through her readings of canonical neorealist films, Minghelli unearths the memorial strata of the neorealist image and investigates the complex historical charge that invests this cinema. This book is both a formal analysis of the new conception of the cinematic image born from a crisis of memory, and a reflection on the relation between cinema and memory. Films discussed include Ossessione (1943) Paisà (1946), Ladri di biciclette (1948), and Cronaca di un amore (1950).

Landscape Allegory in Cinema

Landscape Allegory in Cinema
Title Landscape Allegory in Cinema PDF eBook
Author D. Melbye
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 207
Release 2015-11-14
Genre History
ISBN 9781349288557

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This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind,' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner subjective states.

Film Landscapes

Film Landscapes
Title Film Landscapes PDF eBook
Author Graeme Harper
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 260
Release 2014-08-26
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1443866318

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This book brings together critical and theoretical essays examining the connections between films and landscapes. It showcases the work of established and emerging academics whose research probes the complex relationships between moving images and the filmed environment, and accounts for the impactful effects of viewing lived spaces and human places on screen. The essays in this collection actively engage with examples of contemporary popular and art cinema, genre films and auteur canon, historical films, propaganda, documentary and animation in their explorations of the meanings with which filmed landscapes are endowed and invested. The breadth of the study is matched by the depth of the interest, with writers here approaching the subject of film landscapes as critics, as film practitioners, and as teachers of film studies and film making. Film Landscapes gives voice to a great many ideas, and includes coverage of a great many films; but it also points forward to ways in which we might revisit discussions of the environments of film and consider ways in which history and creativity, critical understanding and the interaction of human beings and place could be reconsidered and revised to produce new insights.

Cinema and Landscape

Cinema and Landscape
Title Cinema and Landscape PDF eBook
Author Graeme Harper
Publisher Intellect Books
Pages 324
Release 2010
Genre Nature
ISBN

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The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an exploration of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment. Written by well-known cinema scholars, this volume both extends the existing field of film studies and stakes claims to overlapping, contested territories in the humanities and social sciences.