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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-14
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  1. PART 1. LAND
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 17-18
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  1. 1. Working the Land: Representations of Rural England in Adaptations of Thomas Hardy’s Novels
  2. pp. 19-34
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  1. 2. Nostalgia and the Middlebrow: Spanish Ruralist Cinema and Mario Camus’s Los santos inocentes / The Holy Innocents
  2. pp. 35-47
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  1. 3. Cultivateur d’images: Albert Tessier and the Rural Tradition in Québécois Cinema
  2. pp. 48-64
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  1. 4. Pictorialist Naturalism and La terre
  2. pp. 65-79
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  1. 5. Transistor and Temporality: The Rural as Modern Thai Cinema’s Pastoral
  2. pp. 80-97
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  1. PART 2. PEASANTS
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 101-103
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  1. 6. Center, Periphery, and Famine in Distant Thunder and In Search of Famine
  2. pp. 104-118
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  1. 7. History and the “Other”: The Search for the Subaltern in Indian Popular Cinema
  2. pp. 119-134
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  1. 8. Symphonie paysanne: An Embodied and Embedded Picturing of the Land
  2. pp. 135-149
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  1. 9. Rural and Urban Brazil in Cinema Novo and Beyond: Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s Barren Lives and Suzana Amaral’s The Hour of the Star
  2. pp. 150-166
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  1. 10. From Georges Rouquier’s Farrebique to Biquefarre: The Rhetoric of Poetics and the Poetics of Rhetoric
  2. pp. 167-179
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  1. PART 3. LANDSCAPE
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 183-184
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  1. 11. Enchanted Places, Land and Sea, and Wilderness: Scottish Highland Landscape and Identity in Cinema
  2. pp. 185-201
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  1. 12. Taïeb Louhichi’s Shadow of the Earth and the Role of the Rural in Maghrebian Film Narrative
  2. pp. 202-212
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  1. 13. The Child in the Cinema: Representations of a Rural Dystopia in Billy Elliot and The Color of Paradise
  2. pp. 213-223
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  1. 14. Migrancy, Tourism, Settlement, and Rural Cinema
  2. pp. 224-239
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  1. 15. A Green and Pleasant Land: Rural Spaces and British Cinema
  2. pp. 240-255
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  1. PART 4. RURAL AND NATION
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 259-260
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  1. 16. Rural Convergences: Constructing and Unraveling National Unity in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Traveling Players
  2. pp. 261-275
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  1. 17. The Road to Modernity: Urban and Rural Scenes in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju, Not One Less, and The Road Home
  2. pp. 276-291
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  1. 18. From Arcadia to Collective Farm and Beyond: The Rural in Hungarian Cinema
  2. pp. 292-306
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  1. 19. Another Lime
  2. pp. 307-322
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  1. 20. World War II and Iowa: Hollywood’s Pastoral Myth for the Nation
  2. pp. 323-339
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  1. Distribution Details for Films
  2. pp. 341-343
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 345-348
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 349-369
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