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Crime Scenery in Postwar Film and Photography

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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.

Table of Contents

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.

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Gustafsson, Henrik. Crime Scenery in Postwar Film and Photography

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  • Date: 2026-09-30T17:48:13.761102+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 21733243

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  • Date: 2026-09-30
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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