The Question of Landscape. Considering the relationship between cinematography and landscape in Iceland through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ontology

• Main Author: Gomez Emilsson, I
• Other Authors: Gee, Felicity, Kember, Joe, Heinänen, Timo
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Exeter 2025
• Subjects: landscape; cinematography; Iceland; Icelandic cinema; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Icelandic landscape; ontology; phenomenology; embodiment; techno-aesthetics; Icelandic culture; Icelandic art; Maurice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/140114

This thesis aims to consider the relationship between cinematography and landscape through the lens of 20th century French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ontology, using the Icelandic landscape as the topos of the research. My approach mirrors and extends, through the praxis – this is, my pract...