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Title Cinematic countrysides / edited by Robert Fish.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Inside popular film
Inside popular film.
Note Originally published: 2007.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What are these cinematic countrysides? / Robert Fish -- Far from the fatal shore: finding meaning and identity in the rural Australian landscape / Jonathan Rayner -- Nature and nation in North Korean film / Carol Medlicott -- Mapping the nation and the countryside in European 'films of voyage' / Maria Rovisco -- Lurking beneath the skin: pagan landscapes in the popular imagination / Tanya Krzywinska -- Militarised countrysides: representations of war and rurality in British and American film / Rachel Woodward and Patricia Winter -- Mediating the rural: Local Hero and the location of Scottish Cinema / Ian Goode -- 'Imagination can be a damned curse in this country': material geographies of filmmaking and the rural / Andy C. Pratt -- Lord of the Rings and transformations in social-spatial identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Martin Phillips -- Idylls and othernesses: rural childhood in film / Owain Jones -- Deviant sexualities and dark ruralities in The War Zone / Michael Leyshon, Catherine Brace -- Feral masculinities: urban versus rural in City Slickers and Hunter's Blood / David Bell -- Amateur film and the rural imagination / Mark Neumann and Janna Jones -- Amber and an/other rural: film, photography and the former coalfields / Katy Bennett and Richard Lee.
Summary Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the 'spatialities of cinema' across the social sciences and humanities, yet to date critical inquiry has tended to explore this issue as a question of the 'city' and the 'urban'. For the first time, leading scholars in geography, film and cultural studies have been drawn together to explore the multiple ways in ideas of cinema and countryside are co-produced: how 'film makes rural' and 'rural makes film'. From the expanse of the American great west to the mountainous landscapes of North Korea, Cinematic Countrysides draws on a range of popular and alternative film genres to demonstrate how film texts come to prefigure expectations of rural social space, and how these representations come to shape, and be shaped by, the material and embodied circumstances of 'lived' rural experience. At the heart of this volume's varied apprehensions of the 'cinematic countryside' is a concern to argue that ideas of rurality in film are central to wider questions of 'modernity' and 'tradition', 'self' and 'other', 'nationhood' and 'globalisation', and crucially, ones that are central to an account of the 'cinematic city'.
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Subject Country life in motion pictures.
Country life in motion pictures.
Landscapes in motion pictures.
Landscapes in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Fish, Robert, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Cinematic countrysides. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014 9780719072673 (OCoLC)896851642
ISBN 9781526130143 (electronic book)
1526130149 (electronic book)
9780719072673
0719072670