| Description |
315 pages ; 23 cm |
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1. Introduction - cinema and landscape -- Part I: The invention of the cinematic landscape : 2. Landscape and the fantasy of moving pictures: early cinema's phantom rides / Tom Gunning -- Part II: Mapping cinematic landscapes : 3. 'One foot in the air?' Landscape in the Soviet and Russian road movie / Emma Widdis -- 4. Landscape of the mind: the indifferent Earth in Werner Herzog's films / Brad Prager -- 5. Visions of Italy: the sublime, the postmodern and the apocalyptic / William Hope -- 6. Landscape in Spanish cinema / Marvin D'Lugo -- 7. Landscape and Irish cinema / Martin McLoone -- 8. The ownership of woods and water: landscapes in British cinema 1930-1960 / Sue Harper -- 9. Filming the (post-)colonial landscape: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988) and Beau travail (1998) / Susan Hayward |
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10. Landscaping the revolution: the political and social geography of Cuba reflected in its cinema / Bob Britton -- 11. Landscapes of meaning in cinema: two Indian examples / Wimal Dissanayake -- 12. The geography of cinema - Zimbabwe / Martin Mhando -- 13. Crises, Economy and landscape: the modern film face of new China / Kate Taylor -- 14. Japanese cinema and landscape / Paul Spicer -- 15. A version of beauty and terror: Australian cinematic landscapes / Graham Harper -- 16. Battlefields of vision: New Zealand filmscapes / Jonathan Rayner -- 17. The landscapes of Canada's features: articulating nation and nature / Jim Leach -- 18 Science fiction/fantasy films, fairy tales and control: landscape stereotypes on a wilderness to ultra-urban continuum / Christina Kennedy, Tiańna and Meĺisa Kennedy |
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Motion picture locations.
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Landscapes in motion pictures.
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National characteristics.
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| Author |
Harper, Graeme, editor
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Rayner, Jonathan (Jonathan R.), editor
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| ISBN |
9781841503097 |
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1841503096 |
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