Offers insights into how rural areas in Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era, through both world wars, and on into the twenty-first century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: approaching British rural landscapes on film - Paul Newland
1 Silent landscapes: rural settings, national identity and British silent cinema - Andrew Higson
2 British landscapes in pre-Second World War film publicity - Paul Moody
3 Rural imagery in Second World War British cinema - Tom Ryall
4 'An unlimited field for experiment': Britain's stereoscopic landscapes - Keith M. Johnston
5 The figure (and disfigurement) in the landscape: The Go-Between's picturesque - Mark Broughton
6 'Here is Wales, there England': contested borders and blurred boundaries in On the Black Hill - Kate Woodward
7 Where the land meets the sea: liminality, identity and rural landscape in contemporary Scottish cinema - Duncan Petrie
8 Fantasy, fallacy and allusion: reconceptualising British landscapes through the lens of children's cinema - Suzanne Speidel
9 Picturesque, pastoral and dirty: uncivilised topographies in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - Stella Hockenhull
10 Folk horror and the contemporary cult of British rural landscape: the case of Blood on Satan's Claw - Paul Newland
11 sleep furiously: interview with Gideon Koppel - Paul Newland
12 Film and the repossession of rural space: interview with Patrick Keiller - Paul Newland
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