[eccr] Fwd: CFP: Cinematic Countrysides

>Cinematic Countrysides
>
>Edited by Robert Fish, University of Nottingham, UK
>
>There is an extensive literature on cinema and the city, most notably
>Clarke¹s The Cinematic City. The following volume will operate as a
>counterpoint to this body of work, and begin to foster a literature on (what
>is often constituted as) the city¹s other: the rural. While film present us
>with numerous representations of rural worlds, cinema is also bound up with
>a series of material geographies in which films are not, and never have
>been, merely consumed within urban spaces. As Robert Allen has repeatedly
>stressed, cinema has never been simply an urban phenomenon. In the process,
>the book will seek to problematicise the distinction between the urban and
>the rural, in which the former has frequently been equated with dynamism,
>difference and the future, and the latter with the inert, homogeneity and
>the past.  The volume will examine constructions of the rural that have
>present this as an idyll consigned to a mythic golden age (Brigadoon), or
>inversely as a degenerate backwater (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).  It will
>involve a comparative analysis of different countysides, considering the
>various ways in which countrysides have been imagined in different national,
>regional and historical contexts. However, unlike much of the work on cinema
>and the city, the volume will go beyond questions of representation and
>critic-driven analyses of the formal and the textual, to investigate the
>contexts of production, mediation and consumption in which they take shape
>and assert influence.
>
>For example, articles might cover:
>
>s The geographical organization of cultural industries and the production of
>cinematic countrysides
>s The marketing of rural places to cultural industries through regional film
>commissions, etc.
>s The technical and creative practices involved in the production of
>cinematic countrysides
>s The cultural histories within which particular representations of the
>countryside are produced
>s The countryside as imagined by outsiders (whether from the city, other
>countries, other times.)
>s Genre and the countryside (horror and the countryside; comedy and the
>countryside; the thriller and the countryside; the road movie etc.)
>s The cultural politics of cinematic representations of the countryside
>(identitifications and antagonisms of gender, class and ethnicity etc.)
>s Relationships between nation, regionality and rurality in cinematic
>representations
>s The intertextual relations of rural films (including relationships between
>films and textual reworkings  within publicity, marketing literature)
>s Rural exhibition and display practices; travelling cinema
>s Cinematic countrysides and audience identifications; readings of the rural
>audience
>s Social and material transformation of rural areas through cinematic
>representation (such as tourism - New Zealand after Lord of the Rings, etc.
>- and migration)
>
>Schedule for Completion
>
>Proposals Due by 1 May, 2003. Selection of proposals by 1 July 2003.
>Manuscripts due by 1 February 2004. Requests for revisions will be made by 1
>May 2004. Final Versions due by 1 July 2004. Submission to press 1 September
>2004.
>
>Dr Robert Fish
>Lecturer in Human Geography
>School of Geography
>University of Nottingham
>University Park
>Nottingham
>NG7 1LP
>
>Tel: + 44 (0) 115 951 5455
>Fax: + 44 (0) 115 951 5249
>Eml: (robert.fish /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)

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