Graeme Harper is professor of creative writing and director of research at the University of Wales, Bangor. He is founding coeditor of the journal Studies in European Cinema and the associate founding editor of the Creative Industries Journal, both also published by Intellect. Jonathan Rayner is a senior lecturer in English and film at the University of Sheffield. His previous books include The Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema and Contemporary Australian Cinema."

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• Chapter 1: Introduction – Cinema and Landscape – Graeme Harper, Bangor University and Jonathan Rayner, University of SheffieldPART I: The Invention of the Cinematic Landscape Chapter 2: Landscape and the Fantasy of Moving Pictures: Early Cinema’s Phantom Rides – Tom Gunning, University of ChicagoPART II: Mapping Cinematic Landscapes Chapter 3: ‘One Foot in the Air?’ Landscape in the Soviet and Russian Road Movie – Emma Widdis, University of CambridgeChapter 4: Landscape of the Mind: The Indifferent Earth in Werner Herzog’s Films – Brad Prager, University of MissouriChapter 5: Visions of Italy: The Sublime, the Postmodern and the Apocalyptic – William Hope, Salford UniversityChapter 6: Landscape in Spanish Cinema – Marvin D’Lugo, Clark UniversityChapter 7: Landscape and Irish Cinema – Martin McLoone, University of UlsterChapter 8: The Ownership of Woods and Water: Landscapes in British Cinema 1930–1960 – Sue Harper, University of PortsmouthChapter 9: Filming the (Post-)Colonial Landscape: Claire Denis’ Chocolat (1988) and Beau travail (1998) – Susan Hayward, University of ExeterChapter 10: Landscaping the Revolution: The Political and Social Geography of Cuba Reflected in its Cinema – Bob Britton, University of SheffieldChapter 11: Landscapes of Meaning in Cinema: Two Indian Examples – Wimal Dissanayake, University of HawaiiChapter 12: The Geography of Cinema – Zimbabwe – Martin Mhando, Murdoch UniversityChapter 13: Crises, Economy and Landscape: The Modern Film Face of New China – Kate Taylor, Bangor UniversityChapter 14: Japanese Cinema and Landscape – Paul Spicer, University of PortsmouthChapter 15: A Version of Beauty and Terror: Australian Cinematic Landscapes – Graeme Harper, Bangor UniversityChapter 16: Battlefields of Vision: New Zealand Filmscapes – Jonathan Rayner, University of SheffieldChapter 17: The Landscapes of Canada’s Features: Articulating Nation and Nature – Jim Leach, Brock UniversityChapter 18: Science Fiction/Fantasy Films, Fairy Tales and Control: Landscape Stereotypes on a Wilderness to Ultra-urban Continuum – Christina Kennedy, Tiánna and Mélisa Kennedy, Northern Arizona University