Landscape Allegory in Cinema: From Wilderness to Wasteland

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Defining Landscape Allegory......Page 14
Pre-Cinematic Appearance of Landscape Allegory......Page 21
Landscape Allegory as an Avant-Garde Gesture......Page 24
Narrative Cinema’s Assimilation of Landscape Allegory......Page 27
Mainstream Allegories of Imperialist Politics......Page 29
Continuation of Landscape Allegory......Page 31
One: Landscape Depiction before Cinema......Page 34
Anthropocentric Landscape in the Middle Ages......Page 35
Classical Landscape in the Renaissance......Page 38
Landscape as Subject in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting......Page 40
The Influential Sunscapes of Claude Lorrain......Page 43
Neoclassical Landscape as Subject in the Eighteenth Century......Page 45
Two: Spiritualized Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century......Page 48
European Sublime Landscape......Page 50
American Sublime Landscape......Page 52
Landscape Sketches of Edgar Allan Poe......Page 55
Three: Advent of Filming Landscape Allegory......Page 60
Early Wilderness Photography......Page 61
Early Abstract Landscape Photography......Page 64
Early Cinematic Depiction of Landscape......Page 65
Brakhage’s Dog Star Man......Page 72
Confluence of Avant-Garde and Mainstream Cinema......Page 75
Enrico’s La rivière du hibou......Page 76
La rivière du hibou’s River Progression......Page 79
La rivière du hibou’s Overland Segment......Page 81
La rivière du hibou’s “Home” of the Avant-Garde......Page 82
The Western’s “Duel in the Sun” Allegory......Page 86
The Wasteland Informed by Space/Place Theory......Page 91
Jodorowsky’s El Topo......Page 94
Six: Italian Wasteland Allegory......Page 98
Antonioni’s Island Allegories......Page 100
Pasolini’s Mountain Allegories......Page 104
Desert Allegories: From Spaghetti Westerns to Zabriskie Point......Page 106
Seven: Australian Outback Allegory......Page 112
Roeg’s Walkabout......Page 113
Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock......Page 116
Eight: Landscape Allegory in Hollywood......Page 124
The Western Megalomaniac versus the Third World Landscape......Page 125
Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia......Page 126
Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King......Page 129
Coppola’s Apocalypse Now......Page 131
Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God......Page 136
Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo......Page 139
Boorman’s Deliverance......Page 141
Friedkin’s Sorcerer......Page 143
Futureworld Landscapes: Planet of the Apes, Zardoz, and 2001: A Space Odyssey......Page 145
Reversal of Landscape Allegory......Page 148
Ten: Landscape Allegory in Other Narrative Contexts......Page 152
Landscape in Noir Films......Page 153
High Sierra......Page 154
Treasure of the Sierra Madre......Page 155
Landscape in Hitchcock Films......Page 157
Spellbound......Page 158
Vertigo......Page 159
Landscape in Road Films......Page 161
Easy Rider......Page 162
Vanishing Point......Page 163
Landscape Allegory as a Critical Discourse......Page 164
Conclusion: Landscape Allegory into the Future......Page 166
Landscape Allegory Returns to Avant-Garde Origins......Page 167
Landscape Allegory in Recent Hollywood Films......Page 169
Landscape Allegory in Asian Cinema......Page 172
The Human Mind as Macroscopic Space......Page 174
Appendix: Chronology of Landscape Allegory......Page 176
Notes......Page 196
Bibliography......Page 202
Index......Page 210