Cinematic Countrysides - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719072662 ISBN 13 : 9780719072666

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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'.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Mark Jancovich is Reader and Director of the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham

Robert Fish is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719072662
• ISBN 13: 9780719072666
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Fish Robert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible