License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenNovember 24th, 2021
FiledNovember 24th, 2021The aim of this chapter is to analyze various texts by Matsuda Masao, the film critic and central ideologue of landscape theory, and theoretical responses to them made by film director Adachi Masao and photographer Nakahira Takuma. First I explore the historical background of how the concept of landscape, or landscape theory developed into an intense debate, and then I examine the process of its decline. The theory of reportage—the theoretical successor to landscape theory—is then described.