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A literary criticism of the book “Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination” by Holocaust survivor and historian Otto Dov Kulka is presented. It explores the relationship between history and landscape in the context of the author's stay at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. The work's structure, the link between memory and history, and the connection between the landscape and the self are also analyzed.

The article discusses historical landscapes in motion pictures. Particular focus is given to the movies “Not Giddy Yet Aerial” and “The North Wind” which take place in England, in the Lake District national park and an area of the West Yorkshire moors known as “Brontē Country,” respectively. Works on the concept of "landscape" by anthropologists Tim Ingold and Katrín Lund, and phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theories of perception are also discussed.

The article presents an essay which evaluates the application of phenomenological and ideological analysis of landscape in terms of its natural and cultural determination. In the context of "Farbenlehre," Wolfgang Goethe's color theory and painter William Turner's work"Ulysses deriding Polyphemus," the author analyzes Greek landscape and the light in Greece, alleging that light is landscape's physical feature. Geographer Carl Sauer's view of the phenomenology of landscape is also discussed.