Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores how cinematic landscapes, often invested with psychological dimensions, play key roles in their films’ moral universes. Its seven chapters, alongside its informative introduction, deal with both older films and very new ones from Argentina, Hungary, Romania, China, Peru, North Africa, Australia, and Russia. Whether as scholars or students, anyone who is interested in landscapes that are idyllic, transformative, or ‘guilty,’ ones that evoke memories of vanished peoples, or ones that could best be described as domains of love with the potential for hope, is sure find something of interest in this worthwhile collection.

Bradley Prager, University of Missouri

Since its advent in western art, landscape is by nature allegorical. In concert with Angus Fletcher, and attesting to what Henri Lefebvre calls a production of space, the contributions to this collection show how cinematic landscapes intensify and even call in question the narratives in which they are shown. On the part of its eight authors Global Studies in Landscape Allegory is a lasting contribution.

Tom Conley, Harvard University