British rural landscapes on film

Collection of essays, edited by Paul Newland, which focus on cinematic representations of the British countryside from the silent era to the twenty-first century. Using popular and alternative films and genres, the essays explore how film representations shape and are shaped by the material and embodied realities of the rural experience. The essays are complemented by interviews with two contemporary British filmmakers, Patrick Keiller and Gideon Koppel. Contents: 'Introduction: approaching British rural landscapes on film' by Paul Newland; 1. 'Silent landscapes: rural settings, national identity and British silent cinema' by Andrew Higson; 2. 'British landscapes in pre-Second World War film publicity' by Paul Moody; 3. 'Rural imagery in Second World War British cinema' by Tom Ryall; 4. '"An unlimited field for experiment": Britain's stereoscopic landscapes' by Keith M. Johnston; 5. 'The figure (and disfigurement) in the landscape: The Go-Between's picturesque' by Mark Broughton; 6. '"Here is Wales, there England": contested borders and blurred boundaries in "On the Black Hill"' by Kate Woodward; 7. 'Where the land meets the sea: liminality, identity and rural landscape in contemporary Scottish cinema' by Duncan Petrie; 8. 'Fantasy, fallacy and allusion: reconceptualising British landscapes through the lens of children's cinema' by Suzanne Speidel; 9. 'Picturesque, pastoral and dirty: uncivilised topographies in "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"' by Stella Hockenhull; 10. 'Folk horror and the contemporary cult of British rural landscape: the case of "Blood on Satan's Claw"' by Paul Newland; 11. '"sleep furiously': interview with Gideon Koppel' by Paul Newland; 12. 'Film and the repossession of rural space: interview with Patrick Keiller' by Paul Newland.