Cinematic Landscape from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

This paper summarizes important viewpoints of western "cinematic landscape" researches, refining the relevant theories and contexts from four perspectives. First, cinematic landscape is essentially a kind of representation instead of reflection, constantly constructing identities of audience. Second, cinematic landscape is changed for a crossing of borders in narrative, which is not only related to film style or devices but also breaking the norm of narrative structure. Third, cinematic landscape is developed in a pseudo-environment beyond texts, which confirmed its feature of "reference" within the context of capital logic in film production. Last, cinematic landscape plays a role of hybrid space in postmodern society, transforming illusion to integral reality and proving the interaction between contemporary tourism and movie industry.