British rural landscapes on film

Paul Newland

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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Table of Content

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 World War Two 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: reconceptualizing 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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About the author

Paul Newland is Senior Lecturer in Film at Aberystwyth University

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9781526104694 ● File size 3.0 MB ● Editor Paul Newland ● Publisher Manchester University Press ● City Manchester ● Country GB ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5369839 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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