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Reimagining Rural
Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life
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2016
Summary
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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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-3406-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-3407-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
166
Product type
Edited Book
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1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
2 Representations of Rural in Popular North American Television No access Pages 9 - 34
3 Portrayals of Rural People and Places in Reality Television Programming No access Pages 35 - 58
4 Inbred Horror Revisited No access Pages 59 - 72
5 Reconsidering the Rural in the End No access Pages 73 - 94
6 Urbanormativity in News Coverage of Rural Life No access Pages 95 - 110
7 The Cow College and Critical Rural Knowledge No access Pages 111 - 122
8 Common Core, STEM, and Rural Schools No access Pages 123 - 146
