New rural cinema : landscape, community and poverty in recent US indie films / Tim Lindemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindemann, Tim, 1987- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Film, class, society ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor in motion pictures.

Country life in motion pictures.

Independent films--United States--History.

Independent films.

Physical Description:

237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : DE GRUYTER, 2023.

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

N the past decade, spanning from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, rural poverty in the United States has risen dramatically. The impact of the pandemic is set to intensify these inequalities as the decades of neoliberal dismantling of public healthcare and other social institutions leave inhabitants of impoverished rural areas particularly vulnerable.Even before this current exacerbation, representations of rural landscape in American cinema have sought to spatially visualize the country's social inequalities and focus on the victims of poverty and marginalization. The films discussed in this monograph, Ballast (2008), Winter's Bone (2010), Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), and Leave No Trace (2018), address deep rural poverty in a complex manner and facilitate an interactive, social understanding of landscape.New Rural Cinema suggest a novel way of looking at landscape in cinema that responds to and guides its readers through this recent development in American Independent film. It views the chosen films as expressions of a growing awareness of the dire inequality caused by neoliberal capitalism in the United States and the role landscape plays both in its mechanisms of social exclusion as well as in its collective contestation.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One Against the "Propertied Gaze"

Rural Poverty in the United States and its Cinematic Representations

Chapter Two From Landschaft to Landscape: Perspectives and Transformations in Geography and the Cinema

Chapter Three Wild Country

National Identity and Landscape in the United States

Chapter Four Disrupted Geography and the Criminal Margins

Winter's Bone (2010)

Chapter Five The Wilderness Illusion

Leave No Trace (2018)

Chapter Six Landscapes in Terminal Crisis: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Chapter Seven Vestiges of Oppression: Ballast (2008)

Conclusion Towards a "Landscape Consciousness"?

Bibliography

Selected Filmography

New Rural Cinema

General Filmography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227), filmography (pages 229-232) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783110779233

3110779234

OCLC:

1396142371

Publisher Number:

99995926539