Foreword
David Desser
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction - Cinema and Landscape
Graeme Harper, Bangor University and Jonathan Rayner, University of Sheffield
Part I: The Invention of the Cinematic Landscape
Chapter 2: Landscape and the Fantasy of Moving Pictures: Early Cinema’s Phantom Rides
Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Part II: Mapping Cinematic Landscapes
Chapter 3: ‘One Foot in the Air?’ Landscape in the Soviet and Russian Road Movie
Emma Widdis, University of Cambridge
Chapter 4: Landscape of the Mind: The Indifferent Earth in Werner Herzog’s Films
Brad Prager, University of Missouri
Chapter 5: Visions of Italy: The Sublime, the Postmodern and the Apocalyptic
William Hope, Salford University
Chapter 6: Landscape in Spanish Cinema
Marvin D’Lugo, Clark University
Chapter 7: Landscape and Irish Cinema
Martin McLoone, University of Ulster
Chapter 8: The Ownership of Woods and Water: Landscapes in British Cinema 1930-1960
Sue Harper, University of Portsmouth
Chapter 9: Filming the (Post-)Colonial Landscape: Claire Denis’ Chocolat (1988) and Beau travail (1998)
Susan Hayward, University of Exeter
Chapter 10: Landscaping the Revolution: The Political and Social Geography of Cuba Reflected in its Cinema
Bob Britton, University of Sheffield
Chapter 11: Landscapes of Meaning in Cinema: Two Indian Examples
Wimal Dissanayake, University of Hawaii
Chapter 12: The Geography of Cinema - Zimbabwe
Martin Mhando, Murdoch University
Chapter 13: Crises, Economy and Landscape: The Modern Film Face of New China
Kate Taylor, Bangor University
Chapter 14: Japanese Cinema and Landscape
Paul Spicer, University of Portsmouth
Chapter 15: A Version of Beauty and Terror: Australian Cinematic Landscapes
Graeme Harper, Bangor University
Chapter 16: Battlefields of Vision: New Zealand Filmscapes
Jonathan Rayner, University of Sheffield
Chapter 17: The Landscapes of Canada’s Features: Articulating Nation and Nature
Jim Leach, Brock University
Chapter 18: Science Fiction/Fantasy Films, Fairy Tales and Control: Landscape Stereotypes on a Wilderness to Ultra-urban Continuum
Christina Kennedy, Tiánna and Mélisa Kennedy, Northern Arizona University
Filmography
Contributors
Index