[Commlist] new book: Landscape and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes

Intellect is pleased to share that /Landscape and the Moving Image 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/landscape-and-the-moving-image>/*/,/* by Catherine 
Elwes, is available in ebook, paperback and hardback.

Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, /Landscape and the Moving 
Image/ considers issues that have preoccupied film and video artists 
over the years, ranging from ecology, gender, race, performativity, 
conflict, colonialism and our relationship to the nonhuman creatures 
with whom we share our world. The book is informed by the belief that 
artists can provide an embodied, emotional response to landscape, which 
is an essential driver in the urgent task of combating the environmental 
crisis we now face.

The book comprises a series of essays that explore how the moving image 
mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus 
is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the 
present day. Early chapters map the theoretical terrain for both 
landscape and artists’ moving image, creating a foundation for the 
chapters that follow devoted to practice. These address themes of 
identity politics, performativity and animals and examine examples of 
British ‘weather-blown films’ alongside work from around the world, 
including Indigenous Australian film landscapes. The book offers an 
informed, personal view of the subject; threaded through the narrative 
is a concern with the environment and the vexed question of whether an 
appreciation of nature’s aesthetics undermines a commitment to ecology. 
The book is written in a clear, engaging style and is enlivened by 
Elwes’s own experiences as a video artist, writer and curator. The 
primary material she draws on has been derived from conversations with 
fellow practitioners across the years.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*Acknowledgements
*
*1. *Introduction
*2.* The Terms of Engagement
*3.* The Invention of Landscape
*4.* The Social Construction of Landscape
*5.* Landscape Subjectivities
*6.* Painted Landscapes
*7. *Frames and Sequences
*8.* Talking Pictures: Narrative, Time, Colour and Sound
*9.* Talking Pictures: Framing the View and the Spectator
*10.* Artists’ Moving Image
*11. *Weather-Blown Film
*12.* Being-With: Rocks, Sea and Sky
*13.* Getting the Shivers: Empathic Projection and the Elements
*14.* Anti-Terrain: Australasia and the ‘Vexed’ Question of Landscape
*15.* Landscape and Identity Politics
*16.* Performing the Landscape
*17.* Animals

*Postscript
References
Index
*

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