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Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory

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Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension - or, in other words, configuring a 'landscape' to function beyond its typical role as a backdrop - and the cultural contexts for this aesthetic impulse. Contributors argue that while audiovisual allegory can be understood as inherently avant-garde, certain kinds of stories - and the ways in which they are presented - can be categorized as a 'landscape allegory.' Focusing on the idea of a 'landscape' in the most concrete and literal form, contributions drawing from a global spectrum of cultural contexts work toward establishing a fuller and more culturally diverse understanding of landscape allegory in cinema.
David Melbye is currently a UKRI/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions senior research fellow in the Department of Music and Design Arts at the University of Huddersfield.
Introduction David Melbye Chapter One: Vacation Landscapes and Interpersonal Crisis in Argentine Film Rocio Gordon Chapter Two: Landscapes of Loss and Guilt in Post-Socialist Hungarian and Romanian Cinema Hajnal Kiraly Chapter Three: Allegorizing Socialist China: Landscape in Chung Kuo, Cina and A Brilliant Spectacle Sabrina Y. Tao Chapter Four: An Alternative Sublime: Filming a Contemporary Gold Rush at The Top of The World Filipa Rosario Chapter Five: Landscape Allegory in Nacer Khemir's Desert Trilogy Ebrahim Barzegar & Fatemeh Gholami Chapter Six: High Ground, Level Ground, and Underground: Dynamics of the Colonized Australian Landscape Susan Barber Chapter Seven: Emergence of the Cinematographer: Landscape Allegory in Soviet Thaw Films David Melbye About the Editor and Contributors
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