Landscape Allegory in Cinema: From Wilderness to Wasteland PDF
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Landscape Allegory in Cinema 99778800223300110044007755__0011__pprreexxiiii..iinndddd ii 55//2200//22001100 88::5522::4411 PPMM This page intentionally left blank Landscape Allegory in Cinema From Wilderness to Wasteland David Melbye 99778800223300110044007755__0011__pprreexxiiii..iinndddd iiiiii 55//2200//22001100 88::5522::4411 PPMM LANDSCAPE ALLEGORY IN CINEMA Copyright © David Melbye, 2010. All rights reserved. First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–10407–5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Melbye, David Landscape allegory in cinema : from wilderness to wasteland / David Melbye. p. cm. ISBN 978–0–230–10407–5 (alk. paper) 1. Landscape in motion pictures. I. Title. PN1995.9.L29M35 2010 791.43966—dc22 2009050883 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: July 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. 99778800223300110044007755__0011__pprreexxiiii..iinndddd iivv 55//2200//22001100 88::5522::4411 PPMM For My Parents: Ann Davis Melbye and Roy Wilbur Melbye 99778800223300110044007755__0011__pprreexxiiii..iinndddd vv 55//2200//22001100 88::5522::4411 PPMM This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Defining Landscape Allegory 1 Pre-Cinematic Appearance of Landscape Allegory 8 Landscape Allegory as an Avant-Garde Gesture 11 Narrative Cinema’s Assimilation of Landscape Allegory 14 Mainstream Allegories of Imperialist Politics 16 Continuation of Landscape Allegory 18 One Landscape Depiction before Cinema 21 Anthropocentric Landscape in the Middle Ages 22 Classical Landscape in the Renaissance 25 Landscape as Subject in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting 27 The Influential Sunscapes of Claude Lorrain 30 Neoclassical Landscape as Subject in the Eighteenth Century 32 Two Spiritualized Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century 35 European Sublime Landscape 37 American Sublime Landscape 39 Landscape Sketches of Edgar Allan Poe 42 Three Advent of Filming Landscape Allegory 47 Early Wilderness Photography 48 Early Abstract Landscape Photography 51 Early Cinematic Depiction of Landscape 52 Four Depiction of Landscape in Avant-Garde Films 59 Brakhage’s Dog Star Man 59 Confluence of Avant-Garde and Mainstream Cinema 62 Enrico’s La rivière du hibou 63 La rivière du hibou’s River Progression 66 La rivière du hibou’s Overland Segment 68 La rivière du hibou’s “Home” of the Avant-Garde 69 99778800223300110044007755__0011__pprreexxiiii..iinndddd vviiii 55//2200//22001100 88::5522::4411 PPMM viii Contents Five Spiritual Wasteland Films 73 The Western’s “Duel in the Sun” Allegory 73 The Wasteland Informed by Space/Place Theory 78 Jodorowsky’s El Topo 81 Six Italian Wasteland Allegory 85 Antonioni’s Island Allegories 87 Pasolini’s Mountain Allegories 91 Desert Allegories: From Spaghetti Westerns to Zabriskie Point 93 Seven Australian Outback Allegory 99 Roeg’s Walkabout 100 Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock 103 Eight Landscape Allegory in Hollywood 111 The Western Megalomaniac versus the Third World Landscape 112 Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia 113 Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King 116 Coppola’s Apocalypse Now 118 Nine River/Jungle and Other Imperialist Allegories 123 Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God 123 Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo 126 Boorman’s Deliverance 128 Friedkin’s Sorcerer 130 Futureworld Landscapes: Planet of the Apes, Zardoz, and 2001: A Space Odyssey 132 Reversal of Landscape Allegory 135 Ten Landscape Allegory in Other Narrative Contexts 139 Landscape in Noir Films 140 High Sierra 141 Treasure of the Sierra Madre 142 Landscape in Hitchcock Films 144 Spellbound 145 Vertigo 146 Landscape in Road Films 148 Easy Rider 149 Vanishing Point 150 Landscape Allegory as a Critical Discourse 151 99778800223300110044007755__0011__pprreexxiiii..iinndddd vviiiiii 55//2200//22001100 88::5522::4411 PPMM Contents ix Conclusion: Landscape Allegory into the Future 153 Landscape Allegory Returns to Avant-Garde Origins 154 Landscape Allegory in Recent Hollywood Films 156 Landscape Allegory in Asian Cinema 159 The Human Mind as Macroscopic Space 161 Appendix: Chronology of Landscape Allegory 163 Notes 183 Bibliography 189 Index 197 99778800223300110044007755__0011__pprreexxiiii..iinndddd iixx 55//2200//22001100 88::5522::4422 PPMM
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