Assembling film‐landscape relations: Performative practices of The Lord of the Rings tours. (17th February 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Le Heron, Erena
• Is Part Of: New Zealand geographer. Volume 76:Number 1(2020:Apr.)
• Page Start: 39
• Page End: 48
• Publication Date: 2020-02-17
• Subjects: assemblage -- film‐landscape relations -- landscape -- performative film tour practices -- representations‐in‐relation; Geography -- Periodicals; New Zealand -- Description and travel -- Periodicals; 910
• DOI: 10.1111/nzg.12248
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0028-8144

Abstract

Abstract: The Lord of the Rings entwined Middle‐earth with Aotearoa New Zealand in popular imagination. More than this, the films reached beyond the cinema into everyday practices and experiences of landscape, particularly through film tours. The paper argues that thinking of film‐landscape relations allows exploration of these co‐constitutive experiences. Through rich empirics, the paper illustrates the performative practices on film tours that enact film‐landscape relations. Situated within landscape literature, the paper employs assemblage thinking to productively hold in tension multiplicity, and the relational and enactive elements that were found in the research. Engagement with film‐landscape relations enriches geographic literatures on landscape and assemblage.