{"product_id":"british-rural-landscapes-on-film-9781526119865","title":"British Rural Landscapes on Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers insights into how rural areas of Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era through both world wars and on into the twenty-first century. It is the first book to deal exclusively with representations of the British countryside on film. The contributors demonstrate that the countryside has provided Britain and its constituent nations and regions with a dense range of spaces in which cultural identities have been and continue to be worked through. Overall, the book demonstrates that British cinema provides numerous examples of how national identity and the identity of the countryside have been constructed through filmic representation, and how British rural films can help us to understand the relationship between the cultural identities of specific areas of Britain and the landscapes they inhabit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This is a useful work ... Newland's Introduction valuably locates the debates about landscape in film within a social and cultural context. He gives an interesting account of the contributions of art history and cultural geography to the issue in hand, and makes a large (and in my view justifiable) claim that cinema has a privileged role in prefiguring social expectations of rural space. Essentially, film mines the available fields of topography and iconography and recycles them in a palatable form. To be sure, this edited volume, like all of its kind, has some internal contradictions because of the plural authorship. But what is gained is variety and richness of texture ... overall, this is a very stimulating book and one which rewards re-reading.’\u003cbr\u003eSue Harper, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of British Cinema and Television. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘This fine collection of essays and interviews investigates the modes and significance of British rural landscape on screen within the history of British national cinema. It sets out to challenge heritage cinema’s representational paradigm of treating landscape as mere spectacle, and focuses instead on films in which the notion of the rural incorporates the depiction of the interconnectedness of land and its inhabitants […] The book may serve as an excellent introduction to the topic for students, as well as a source of new ideas and some refreshingly new perspectives for the initiated expert.’\u003cbr\u003eErzsébet Stróbl, \u003ci\u003eFilm \u0026amp; History: An Interdisciplinary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Winter 2018)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: approaching British rural landscapes on film - Paul Newland\u003cbr\u003e1 Silent landscapes: rural settings, national identity and British silent cinema - Andrew Higson \u003cbr\u003e2 British landscapes in pre-Second World War film publicity - Paul Moody\u003cbr\u003e3 Rural imagery in Second World War British cinema - Tom Ryall\u003cbr\u003e4 'An unlimited field for experiment': Britain's stereoscopic landscapes - Keith M. Johnston \u003cbr\u003e5 The figure (and disfigurement) in the landscape: \u003ci\u003eThe Go-Between's\u003c\/i\u003e picturesque - Mark Broughton\u003cbr\u003e6 'Here is Wales, there England': contested borders and blurred boundaries in \u003ci\u003eOn the Black Hill \u003c\/i\u003e- Kate Woodward\u003cbr\u003e7 Where the land meets the sea: liminality, identity and rural landscape in contemporary Scottish cinema - Duncan Petrie\u003cbr\u003e8 Fantasy, fallacy and allusion: reconceptualising British landscapes through the lens of children's cinema - Suzanne Speidel\u003cbr\u003e9 Picturesque, pastoral and dirty: uncivilised topographies in \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e - Stella Hockenhull\u003cbr\u003e10 Folk horror and the contemporary cult of British rural landscape: the case of \u003ci\u003eBlood on Satan's Claw\u003c\/i\u003e - Paul Newland\u003cbr\u003e11 \u003ci\u003esleep furiously\u003c\/i\u003e: interview with Gideon Koppel - Paul Newland\u003cbr\u003e12 Film and the repossession of rural space: interview with Patrick Keiller - Paul Newland\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040988299607,"sku":"9781526119865","price":32.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526119865.jpg?v=1750948504","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/british-rural-landscapes-on-film-9781526119865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}