Representing the Rural
Space, Place, and Identity in Films about the Land
1st Edition
Published on 13. September 2006
381 pages
978-0-8143-3562-8 (ISBN)
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Catherine Fowler | Gillian Helfield
Representing the Rural
Space, Place, and Identity in Films About the Land
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09/2006
Wayne State University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART 1. LAND
- Introduction
- 1. Working the Land: Representations of Rural England in Adaptations of Thomas Hardy's Novels
- 2. Nostalgia and the Middlebrow: Spanish Ruralist Cinema and Mario Camus's
- 3. Cultivateur d'images: Albert Tessier and the Rural Tradition in Québécois Cinema
- 4. Pictorialist Naturalism and La terre
- 5. Transistor and Temporality: The Rural as Modern Thai Cinema's Pastoral
- PART 2. PEASANTS
- Introduction
- 6. Center, Periphery, and Famine in Distant Thunder and In Search of Famine
- 7. History and the "Other": The Search for the Subaltern in Indian Popular Cinema
- 8. Symphonie paysanne: An Embodied and Embedded Picturing of the Land
- 9. 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
- 10. From Georges Rouquier's Farrebique to Biquefarre: The Rhetoric of Poetics and the Poetics of Rhetoric
- PART 3. LANDSCAPE
- Introduction
- 11. Enchanted Places, Land and Sea, and Wilderness: Scottish Highland Landscape and Identity in Cinema
- 12. Taïeb Louhichi's Shadow of the Earth and the Role of the Rural in Maghrebian Film Narrative
- 13. The Child in the Cinema: Representations of a Rural Dystopia in Billy Elliot and The Color of Paradise
- 14. Migrancy, Tourism, Settlement, and Rural Cinema
- 15. A Green and Pleasant Land: Rural Spaces and British Cinema
- PART 4. RURAL AND NATION
- Introduction
- 16. Rural Convergences: Constructing and Unraveling National Unity in Theo Angelopoulos's The Traveling Players
- 17. The Road to Modernity: Urban and Rural Scenes in Zhang Yimou's The Story of Qiu Ju, Not One Less, and The Road Home
- 18. From Arcadia to Collective Farm and Beyond: The Rural in Hungarian Cinema
- 19. Another Limeño Fantasy: Peruvian National Cinema and the Critical Reception of the Early Films of Francisco Lombardi and Federico García
- 20. World War II and Iowa: Hollywood's Pastoral Myth for the Nation
- Distribution Details for Films
- Contributors
- Index
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