| Description |
ix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
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Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
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| 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. |
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Includes filmography: pages 341-343. |
| Subject |
Country life in motion pictures.
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Country life in motion pictures. |
| Added Author |
Fowler, Catherine, 1969-
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Helfield, Gillian.
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| ISBN |
0814333052 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780814333051 paperback alkaline paper |
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