Place in Film: Landscapes as More Than Setting

Landscapes of Learning, in the conference title, prompts a literal reading of landscape and its place in film analysis. This article considers landscape's mental and emotional dimensions and the discovery of landscape as a malleable analytical concept. A critique of film as a visual text is invited. Particular analytical approaches to film follow, through notions of soundscape and, using Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema, through orientations such as the tectonics of sensation' (percept and affect) and the mis-eenscene of the brain' (landscape as a mental construct). These concerns and their implications put us in a position to approach the rest of the conference title's focus on hearts, minds and stories, both in terms of film study in the English classroom and in the light of questions and approaches that open up a film for students.

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This article discusses the role of landscapes in film analysis and explores the concept of landscape as a malleable analytical tool. Various approaches to film analysis, such as soundscape and Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema, are examined to gain a deeper understanding of film as a visual text. The article also emphasizes the importance of considering hearts, minds, and stories in film studies and offers approaches for studying films in an English classroom.