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'. -- .
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