| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Manchester Film Studies |
| Contents |
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 Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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| Subject |
Landscapes in motion pictures.
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Rural conditions in motion pictures
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
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Landscapes
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Landscapes in motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004759
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Newland, Paul (Lecturer in film studies), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526104694 |
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1526104695 |
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9781526104687 |
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1526104687 |
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9781526115270 |
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1526115271 |
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