Description
Book SynopsisAn innovative study of the neglected topic of cinematic representations of the countryside, through historical analysis, theoretical critique and explorations of genre, national cinema and urban representations -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. What are these cinematic countrysides?
Robert Fish
Part I. Nations, borders and histories
2. Far from the fatal shore: finding meaning and identity in the rural Australian landscape
Jonathan Rayner
3. Nature and nation in North Korean film
Carol Medlicott
4. Mapping the nation and the countryside in European ‘films of voyage’
Maria Rovisco
5. Lurking beneath the skin: pagan landscapes in the popular imagination
Tanya Krzywinska
6. Militarised countrysides: representations of war and rurality in British and American film
Rachel Woodward and Patricia Winter
Part II. Mobile productions and contested representations
7. Mediating the rural: Local Hero and the location of Scottish Cinema
Ian Goode
8. ‘Imagination can be a damned curse in this country’: material geographies of filmmaking and the rural
Andy C. Pratt
9. Lord of the Rings and transformations in social-spatial identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Martin Phillips
Part III. Identity, difference and otherness
10. Idylls and othernesses: rural childhood in film
Owain Jones
11. Deviant sexualities and dark ruralities in The War Zone
Michael Leyshon Catherine Brace
12. Feral masculinities: urban versus rural in City Slickers and Hunter's Blood
David Bell
Part IV. Mediating experience and performing alternatives
13. Amateur film and the rural imagination
Mark Neumann and Janna Jones
14. Amber and an/other rural: film, photography and the former coalfields
Katy Bennett and Richard Lee
