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
