Call for Papers: Representing the Rural in the Cinema Proposals are invited for contributions to a collection which will focus upon the use of the rural space within the cinema. We invite proposals which take ‘the rural’ in its widest sense and may include studies of such films as: La Terra Trema (Visconti, Italy 1948) Land Without Bread (Bunuel, Spain 1932) Farrebique (Georges Rouquier, France 1948) the work of Albert Tessier, Symphonie Paysanne (Henri Storck, Belgium 1942-44) Raging Sky and The Earth (both Youssef Chahine, Egypt 1953, 1968) Earth (Dovzhenko, Russia 1930) Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermano Olmi, Italy 1978) Will there be snow for Christmas? (Sandrine Veysset, France 1996) Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker, India 2001) This Filthy Earth ( Andrew Kotting, UK 2001) We also welcome proposals which treat thematic areas to include: The Rural Representations of country folk and country life: images of ‘the regional picturesque’ and its capacity both for escapism and nostalgia. The possibility of ‘rural genres’ Dichotomies between city and country, between the traditional and the modern, between the utopic and dystopic The place of rural representations in debates around national cinemas: their revelation of the degree and nature of the nation’s investment in its past. The use of the rural to represent subaltern or minority cultures in Europe, North America, Latin America and other third world regions whose claims to national identity are problematic and even controversial. The use of the rural space to examine archaic customs and rituals connected to the land. Peasant cinema(s) The situation of peasant cinema within the larger context of national cinemas: i.e. comparisons between local and regional cinemas, and between dominant and residual cultures. Peasant culture and its place in definitions of ‘the national’ (its use of the rural milieu and its inhabitants as models for a wider national identity) Peasant cinema as documentary and/or ethnography: representations and recreations of the ‘real’. Please send a one-page proposal by July 31st 2002 to Dr Catherine Fowler, Faculty of Media, Arts and Society, Southampton Institute of Higher Education, East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YN, United Kingdom. For further information or to submit via email please contact either Catherine Fowler: [log in to unmask] or Gillian Helfield [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html