Film theory & criticism
British rural landscapes on film
Edited by Paul Newland
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British rural landscapes on film 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. It is the first book to exclusively deal with representations of the British countryside on film. The contributors demonstrate that the countryside has provided Britain (and its constituent nations and regions) with a dense range of spaces in which cultural identities have been (and continue to be) worked through. British rural landscapes on film demonstrates that British cinema provides numerous examples of how national identity and the identity of the countryside have been partly constructed through filmic representation, and how British rural films can allow us to further understand the relationship between the cultural identities of specific areas of Britain and the landscapes they inhabit.
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This is the first book to deal exclusively with cinematic representations of the British countryside. It offers original 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. It balances new scholarly articles with interviews with two key contemporary British filmmakers (Patrick Keiller and Gideon Koppel). The contributors to this book demonstrate that the countryside has provided Britain and its constituent nations and regions with a dense range of spaces in which contested cultural identities have been, and continue to be, worked through. The diverse and varied essays draw on a range of popular and alternative films and genres in order to demonstrate how far film representations come to shape - and be shaped by - the material and embodied circumstances of what we might think of as 'lived' rural experience. They also show how representations of British rural landscapes in films often drawn on tropes previously seen in literature and art. This collection focuses on questions of modernity versus tradition, nationhood, and the relationship between the global and the local. It will be of interest to scholars of British cinema history, British film, cultural geography and rural studies in particular, as well as the general reader.
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Paul Newland is Reader in Film at Aberystwyth University
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date August 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719091575
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 70 GBP
- Pages224
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
- Illustration12 black & white illustrations
- Biblio NotesIntroduction: 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 Index
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