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.
