The Aesthetics of Travelogue: The Panoramic, the Picturesque, and the Sublime
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Through a close reading of the earliest travelogues, this article examines two travel films depicting turn-of-the-century Korea focusing on their ideological motivations and stylistic conventions. As a visual technology annihilating time and space, cinema arose at the intersection of the industrialization of modern transportation and a growing interest in geographic and ethnographic knowledge. Paying attention to the historical complicity between tourism, transportation, and colonialism, this article examines early cinema as a “machine for travel” and traces how the earliest film technology contributed to the discovery of landscapes as an epistemic system of representation. While looking at how modern travel and the representation of travel mobilized motion-picture technology and helped to spread the Western mode of vision and geographic knowledge about the world, I show that early travelogues developed according to a particular set of aesthetic norms, somewhere between the picturesque and the sublime.
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Through a close reading of the earliest travelogues, this article examines two travel films depicting turn-of-the-century Korea focusing on their ideological motivations and stylistic conventions. As a visual technology annihilating time and space, cinema arose at the intersection of the industrialization of modern transportation and a growing interest in geographic and ethnographic knowledge. Paying attention to the historical complicity between tourism, transportation, and colonialism, this article examines early cinema as a “machine for travel” and traces how the earliest film technology contributed to the discovery of landscapes as an epistemic system of representation. While looking at how modern travel and the representation of travel mobilized motion-picture technology and helped to spread the Western mode of vision and geographic knowledge about the world, I show that early travelogues developed according to a particular set of aesthetic norms, somewhere between the picturesque and the sublime.
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