Robert Fish is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter

• Introduction1. What are these cinematic countrysides?Robert FishPart I. Nations, borders and histories 2. Far from the fatal shore: finding meaning and identity in the rural Australian landscapeJonathan Rayner3. Nature and nation in North Korean film Carol Medlicott4. Mapping the nation and the countryside in European ‘films of voyage’Maria Rovisco5. Lurking beneath the skin: pagan landscapes in the popular imaginationTanya Krzywinska6. Militarised countrysides: representations of war and rurality in British and American film Rachel Woodward and Patricia WinterPart II. Mobile productions and contested representations 7. Mediating the rural: Local Hero and the location of Scottish CinemaIan Goode8. ‘Imagination can be a damned curse in this country’: material geographies of filmmaking and the ruralAndy C. Pratt9. Lord of the Rings and transformations in social-spatial identity in Aotearoa/New ZealandMartin Phillips Part III. Identity, difference and otherness10. Idylls and othernesses: rural childhood in filmOwain Jones11. Deviant sexualities and dark ruralities in The War ZoneMichael Leyshon Catherine Brace 12. Feral masculinities: urban versus rural in City Slickers and Hunter's BloodDavid BellPart IV. Mediating experience and performing alternatives 13. Amateur film and the rural imaginationMark Neumann and Janna Jones 14. Amber and an/other rural: film, photography and the former coalfields Katy Bennett and Richard Lee

Robert Fish is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter

• Introduction1. What are these cinematic countrysides?Robert FishPart I. Nations, borders and histories 2. Far from the fatal shore: finding meaning and identity in the rural Australian landscapeJonathan Rayner3. Nature and nation in North Korean film Carol Medlicott4. Mapping the nation and the countryside in European ‘films of voyage’Maria Rovisco5. Lurking beneath the skin: pagan landscapes in the popular imaginationTanya Krzywinska6. Militarised countrysides: representations of war and rurality in British and American film Rachel Woodward and Patricia WinterPart II. Mobile productions and contested representations 7. Mediating the rural: Local Hero and the location of Scottish CinemaIan Goode8. ‘Imagination can be a damned curse in this country’: material geographies of filmmaking and the ruralAndy C. Pratt9. Lord of the Rings and transformations in social-spatial identity in Aotearoa/New ZealandMartin Phillips Part III. Identity, difference and otherness10. Idylls and othernesses: rural childhood in filmOwain Jones11. Deviant sexualities and dark ruralities in The War ZoneMichael Leyshon Catherine Brace 12. Feral masculinities: urban versus rural in City Slickers and Hunter's BloodDavid BellPart IV. Mediating experience and performing alternatives 13. Amateur film and the rural imaginationMark Neumann and Janna Jones 14. Amber and an/other rural: film, photography and the former coalfields Katy Bennett and Richard Lee

Robert Fish is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter

• Introduction1. What are these cinematic countrysides?Robert FishPart I. Nations, borders and histories 2. Far from the fatal shore: finding meaning and identity in the rural Australian landscapeJonathan Rayner3. Nature and nation in North Korean film Carol Medlicott4. Mapping the nation and the countryside in European ‘films of voyage’Maria Rovisco5. Lurking beneath the skin: pagan landscapes in the popular imaginationTanya Krzywinska6. Militarised countrysides: representations of war and rurality in British and American film Rachel Woodward and Patricia WinterPart II. Mobile productions and contested representations 7. Mediating the rural: Local Hero and the location of Scottish CinemaIan Goode8. ‘Imagination can be a damned curse in this country’: material geographies of filmmaking and the ruralAndy C. Pratt9. Lord of the Rings and transformations in social-spatial identity in Aotearoa/New ZealandMartin Phillips Part III. Identity, difference and otherness10. Idylls and othernesses: rural childhood in filmOwain Jones11. Deviant sexualities and dark ruralities in The War ZoneMichael Leyshon Catherine Brace 12. Feral masculinities: urban versus rural in City Slickers and Hunter's BloodDavid BellPart IV. Mediating experience and performing alternatives 13. Amateur film and the rural imaginationMark Neumann and Janna Jones 14. Amber and an/other rural: film, photography and the former coalfields Katy Bennett and Richard Lee