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Landscape and the moving image /

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 a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elwes, Catherine, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.