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Honar Nameh
University of Art, Tehran
No. 11, 2001
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Pastoral
Movies:
A Dual Approach
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Pastoral means
shepherds, rustic, rural and ruralism. It connotes
holding nature up as an ideal and a way of life in
harmony with nature. It also means turning away from
the city and urban civilization.
The city embodies civic society, man's superiority
over nature, and the predominance of abstract models
and concepts over nature.
The desire to live in harmony with nature away from
the city has been with us since Virgil's Pastoral
Songs, in ancient Rome. That was, perhaps, the first
pastoral movement, representing a nostalgic return to
the Golden Age of Hesiod.
Virgil's poetry was reminiscent of the Golden Age, and
it created a place called "Arcadia"; but not
the Arcadia of ancient Greece, located in Peloponesus.
It was a place not on geographic maps, but an ideal
place, the "Home of Song and Love".
Virgil created Arcadia, and it inspired not only the
pastoral poetry of Europe, but also Handel's Galaeta
and the paintings of Claud Lorain and Antonie Watteau.
In movies, the Pastoral has had a twofold nature.
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