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Title Representing the rural : space, place, and identity in films about the land / edited by Catherine Fowler and Gillian Helfield.

Publication Info. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 369 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
Contents Working the land: representations of rural England in adaptations of Thomas Hardy's novels / Sarah Cardwell -- Nostalgia and the middlebrow: Spanish ruralist cinema and Mario Camus's Los santos inocentes/The holy innocents / Sally Faulkner -- Cultivateur d'images: Albert Tessier and the rural tradition in Québécois cinema / Gillian Helfield -- Pictorialist naturalism and La terre / Ian Aitken -- Transistor and temporality: the rural as modern Thai cinema's pastoral / May Adadol Ingawanij -- Center, periphery, and famine in Distant thunder and In search of famine / Dharmasena Pathiraja and David Hanan -- History and the "other": the search for the subaltern in Indian popular cinema / Chandrima Chakraborty -- Symphonic paysanne: an embodied and embedded picturing of the land / Catherine Fowler -- Rural and urban Brazil in Cinema novo and beyond: Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Barren lives and Suzana Amaral's The hour of the star / Karen Goldman -- From Georges Rouquier's Farrebeque to Biquefarre: the rhetoric of poetics and the poetics of rhetoric / William Gilcher -- Enchanted places, land and sea, and wilderness: Scottish highland landscape and identity in cinema / Annie Morgan James -- Taïeb Louhichi's Shadow of the earth and the role of the rural in Maghrebian film narrative / Roy Armes -- The child in the cinema: representations of a rural dystopia in Billy Elliot and The color of paradise / Kerry Kidd -- Migrancy, tourism, settlement, and rural cinema / Albert Moran -- A green and pleasant land: rural spaces and British cinema / Andrew Higson -- Rural convergences: constructing and unraveling national unity in Theo Angelopoulos's The traveling players / Zoran Samardzija -- The road to modernity: urban and rural scenes in Zhang Yimou's The story of Qiu Ju, Not one less, and The road home / Yifen Beus -- From Arcadia to collective farm and beyond: the rural in Hungarian cinema / John Cunningham -- Another Limeño fantasy: Peruvian national cinema and the critical reception of the early films of Francisco Lombardi and Federico García / Jeffrey Middents R. -- World War II and Iowa: Hollywood's pastoral myth for the nation / Marty S. Kneeper and John S. Lawrence.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography: pages 341-343.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Country life in motion pictures.
Country life in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Fowler, Catherine, 1969-
Helfield, Gillian.
Other Form: Print version: Representing the rural. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2006 0814333052 (DLC) 2006011467 (OCoLC)65978616
ISBN 9780814335628 (electronic book)
0814335624 (electronic book)
0814333052
9780814333051