Landscape and the moving image. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Catherine Elwes.
• Authors: Elwes, Catherine, 1952-
• 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’; - 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 10. Artists’ Moving Image ; - ‘Unmade Narratives’: 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, Oscar Muñoz, Bill Viola, Joan Jonas and William Raban 14. Anti-Terrain: Australasia and the ‘Vexed’ Question of Landscape ; - 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 704.9436; Landscapes in art; Landscapes in motion pictures; Video art
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789385700; 9781789385694
• Related ISBNs: 9781789385687; 9781789385823
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