landscape theory

Sensory Landscapes in Harold Pinter: a Study on Ecocriticism and Symbolist Aesthetics

by Graça P. Corrêa. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012. Within the emerging interdisciplinary scope of landscape theory, and taking as its object of study the work written for the stage by contemporary British playwright Harold Pinter, this book is the first sustained in-depth study that relates Pinter’s dramatic images and sensory landscapes to Symbolist theatre and theory, so as to disclose several unexplored ecocritical and micropolitical resonances of his theatre for our times. Ecocritically, Pinter’s landscapes evoke a sense of warning against the end of “nature,” or against the ending of vital connections between human and extra-human realities. Micropolitically, his …

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Landscapes of Dictatorship in Film: Three Aesthetic and Emotional Modes

by Graça P. Corrêa. Drawing on emotion theory and genre studies, this article analyzes and compares three landscapes of dictatorship in ﬁlm, namely Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (2001), and Luis Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat (2005), as expressed by distinct aesthetic and emotional modes. The ﬁlms under examination reﬂect upon three interrelated dictatorial rules in disparate geographical locations: the escalation of Nazi power and attendant criminal frame of mind in Germany of the early 1930s (Fritz Lang’s); the persecution of Leftwing sympathizers, accompanied by the murder of powerless human beings, …