Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. LAND -- Introduction -- 1. Working the Land: Representations of Rural England in Adaptations of Thomas Hardy's Novels -- 2. Nostalgia and the Middlebrow: Spanish Ruralist Cinema and Mario Camus's -- 3. Cultivateur d'images: Albert Tessier and the Rural Tradition in Québécois Cinema -- 4. Pictorialist Naturalism and La terre -- 5. Transistor and Temporality: The Rural as Modern Thai Cinema's Pastoral -- PART 2. PEASANTS -- Introduction -- 6. Center, Periphery, and Famine in Distant Thunder and In Search of Famine -- 7. History and the "Other": The Search for the Subaltern in Indian Popular Cinema -- 8. Symphonie paysanne: An Embodied and Embedded Picturing of the Land -- 9. Rural and Urban Brazil in Cinema Novo and Beyond: Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Barren Lives and Suzana Amaral's The Hour of the Star -- 10. From Georges Rouquier's Farrebique to Biquefarre: The Rhetoric of Poetics and the Poetics of Rhetoric -- PART 3. LANDSCAPE -- Introduction -- 11. Enchanted Places, Land and Sea, and Wilderness: Scottish Highland Landscape and Identity in Cinema -- 12. Taïeb Louhichi's Shadow of the Earth and the Role of the Rural in Maghrebian Film Narrative -- 13. The Child in the Cinema: Representations of a Rural Dystopia in Billy Elliot and The Color of Paradise -- 14. Migrancy, Tourism, Settlement, and Rural Cinema -- 15. A Green and Pleasant Land: Rural Spaces and British Cinema -- PART 4. RURAL AND NATION -- Introduction -- 16. Rural Convergences: Constructing and Unraveling National Unity in Theo Angelopoulos's The Traveling Players -- 17. The Road to Modernity: Urban and Rural Scenes in Zhang Yimou's The Story of Qiu Ju, Not One Less, and The Road Home -- 18. From Arcadia to Collective Farm and Beyond: The Rural in Hungarian Cinema.

19. Another Limeño Fantasy: Peruvian National Cinema and the Critical Reception of the Early Films of Francisco Lombardi and Federico García -- 20. World War II and Iowa: Hollywood's Pastoral Myth for the Nation -- Distribution Details for Films -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.