Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fowler, Catherine, 1969-
• Helfield, Gillian.

Description

ix, 369 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Demonstrating the viability of rural cinema as a benchmark of national identity by bringing into critical focus the space the rural occupies, this work attempts to formulate a template for rural cinema, set forth its salient characteristics and provide a guideline for discussion and analysis.

Series Statement

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Contemporary approaches to film and television series.

Subject

Country life in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes filmography: p. 341-343.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 Farrebique 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. Knepper and John S. Lawrence.

ISBN

• 0814333052 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780814333051 (pbk.)
• 9780814333051

LCCN

^^2006011467

OCLC

• 65978616
• SCSB-12913835

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library