Reimagining Rural
eBook - PDF

Reimagining Rural

Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life

  1. 174 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reimagining Rural

Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life

About this book

Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or deviant. This includes exploring the role of the media as agenda setting agent, informing people what and how to think about rural life. Further it includes scrutinizing the institution of formal education that promotes a homogenous urban-oriented curriculum, while in the process, marginalizing the unique characteristics of local rural communities. These contributions are some of the only studies of their kind, investigating popular cultural representations of rural life, while providing powerful evidence and unique challenges for an urban society to rethink and reimagine rural life, while confronting the many stereotypes and myths that exist.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. 1 Introduction
  3. 2 Representations of Rural in Popular North American Television
  4. 3 Portrayals of Rural People and Places in Reality Television Programming
  5. 4 Inbred Horror Revisited
  6. 5 Reconsidering the Rural in the End
  7. 6 Urbanormativity in News Coverage of Rural Life
  8. 7 The Cow College and Critical Rural Knowledge
  9. 8 Common Core, STEM, and Rural Schools
  10. 9 Conclusion
  11. Appendix
  12. Index
  13. About the Contributors