British rural landscapes on film

Synopsis

This Work 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 21st Century. 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. 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 Second World War 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: Reconceptualising 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. Edited By Paul Newland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.