| Cinematic Countrysides Contributor(s): Jancovich, Mark (Editor), Fish, Robert (Editor), Schaefer, Eric (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0719072662 ISBN-13: 9780719072666 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: From the expanse of the American great west to the mountainous landscapes of North Korea, "Cinematic Countrysides" draws on a range of genres to demonstrate how film texts come to prefigure expectations of rural social space and how these representations are shaped by the material circumstances of "lived" rural experience. For the first time, leading scholars in geography, film, and cultural studies have been drawn together to explore the multiple ways cinema and countryside are co-produced: how "film makes rural" and "rural makes film." At the heart of this volume's apprehensions of the "cinematic countryside" is a concern that ideas of rurality in film are central to wider questions of "modernity" and "tradition," "self" and "other," "nationhood" and "globalization," and the "cinematic city." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| Series: Inside Popular Film |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 5.79" W x 8.59" (1.07 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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'. |