Crime Scenery in Postwar Film and Photography

Henrik Gustafsson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 285 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-04866-2 (ISBN)

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This book offers a rare and innovative consideration of an enduring tendency in postwar art to explore places devoid of human agents in the wake of violent encounters. To see the scenery together with the crime elicits a double interrogation, not merely of a physical site but also of its formation as an aesthetic artefact, and ultimately of our own acts of looking and imagining. Closely engaging with a vast array of works made by artists, filmmakers and photographers, each who has forged a distinct vantage point on the aftermath of crime and conflict, the study selectively maps the afterlife of landscape in search of the political and ethical agency of the image. By way of a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach, Crime Scenery in Postwar Film and Photography brings landscape studies into close dialogue with contemporary theory by paying sustained attention to how the gesture of retracing past events facilitates new configurations of the present and future.

Henrik Gustafsson is Professor of Film, Media and Visual Culture in the Department of Media and Documentation Science, University of Tromsø, Norway. His articles appear in numerous anthologies and journals, and he is the author or editor of four books, including Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (co-edited with Asbjørn Grønstad, 2014) and Out of Site: Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema, 1969-1974 (2008).

1. Imperfect Crimes.- 2. From Dreamwork to Earthwork.- 3. Intruders in the Dust.- 4. A Murder of Crows.- 5. Persistence of Vision.- 6. The Testimony of Trees.

"As this is a film and television journal review, I'll leave the photographers aside and concentrate on Gustafsson's selection and analysis of the films. He systematically examines works that together cover a significant geographical and chronological stretch and are all preoccupied with more or less detectable traces left in a landscape by warfare ... . All in all, Gustafsson's book successfully argues that reports about the death of landscape as an art form have been greatly exaggerated." (Andrei Rogatchevski, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, March 10, 2022)

“As this is a film and television journal review, I’ll leave the photographers aside and concentrate on Gustafsson’s selection and analysis of the films. He systematically examines works that together cover a significant geographical and chronological stretch and are all preoccupied with more or less detectable traces left in a landscape by warfare … . All in all, Gustafsson’s book successfully argues that reports about the death of landscape as an art form have been greatly exaggerated.” (Andrei Rogatchevski, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, March 10, 2022)

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2019
Zusatzinfo	XV, 285 p. 30 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	519 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	Aby Warburg • Aesthetic • aftermath • ART • filmmaking • George Didi-Huberman • Landscape • late photography • Memory • Nicolas Poussin • political agency • Violence • war • War Crime
ISBN-10	3-030-04866-7 / 3030048667
ISBN-13	978-3-030-04866-2 / 9783030048662
Zustand	Neuware