Representing the Rural
Space, Place, and Identity in Films about the Land (livre en anglais)
Sous la direction de Catherine Fowler et Gillian Helfield
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Description de l'ouvrage :
A comprehensive and in-depth examination of the role of rural space in the cinema, contributing needed analysis to existing work on space, place, and identity in film.
Although the urban setting in film has received much critical attention, little has been written about the use of land, or the rural, in the cinema-despite its equally prolific and consistent history as a backdrop to both fiction and documentary work. This collection demonstrates the viability of rural cinema as a benchmark of national identity by bringing into critical focus the space the rural occupies, both on cinema screens and in the national imagination. Whether rural space is figured as idyllic or troubled, mythological or historical, obsolete or perennial, this collection argues that it constitutes a rich medium through which to enunciate shifting concepts of identity and nationhood.
Spanning time periods and world locations, the films discussed in this volume use the land as physical territory, living place, unspoken character, or mythic and symbolic presence. The book's twenty chapters fall into four thematic sections. In "Land" and "Peasants," the focus is on films in which land is seen from the perspective of its inhabitants. Essays in "Landscape" and "Rural and Nation" examine films in which the landscape functions an index to national identity. Here geography is taken to an ideological level, where the land is key to the social and national cohesion of its inhabitants and to their cultural survival. In all, the essays presented explore the inextricable link between the urban and the rural as points of tension rather than simple points of contrast.
Representing the Rural attempts to formulate a template for rural cinema, set forth its most salient characteristics, and provide a guideline for discussion and analysis. Students and film scholars will appreciate this unique volume.
À propos des auteurs :
Catherine Fowler is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.Gillian Helfield is lecturer in film studies at York University, Toronto.
Revue de Presse :
Representing the Rural breaks new ground in the writing of cinema history, offering fresh perspectives on the character and place of national identity in cinematic explorations of the land, peasants, landscapes, and cultures caught up in the transition from rural to metropolitan spaces. The twenty essays explore films from five continents, different moments in cinema and social history, and other art forms. This book fills a necessary niche in the growing literature on tension between 'the country' and 'the city,' tradition and modernity, and the possibility of nation and national cinema in a postcolonial, globalized world."
-Marcia Landy, Distinguished Service Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Co-Editor of the Historical Film: History and Memory in Media, and Author of Monty Python&Rsquo;S Flying Circus and Italian Film
The necessary refusal to consume films as merely character-driven narratives means that we must learn to see all the layers of visual storytelling, including and especially the places and spaces that make stories resonate with the complex rhythms of history. Fowler and Helfield's anthology, Representing the Rural, gives film and cultural studies a genuinely comparative dimension by addressing the urban-rural dialectic in a wide variety of national-regional cinemas. Their book opens up a long-awaited, new perspective on and in film studies."
-Paul Willemen, Professor of Media Studies, University of Ulster and Co-Editor of Theorising National Cinema
Voir le site internet de l'éditeur Wayne State University Press
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