The British cinema has drawn extensively on the national landscapes. Filmmakers have explored the entrenched myth of an idyllic rural tradition, intimately bound-up with a popular definition of national heritage. Conversely, within a documentary-realist framework, they have looked at the contemporary urban aesthetic, derived partly from a Victorian tradition of social investigation. The Nottingham festival from which this collection derives brought together a group of leading specialists - practitioners, academics and individual researchers - who between them provide a detailed investigation into the national cinema before the sound era. Topics covered include: the 'violent realism' of Edwardian cinema; urban and rural landscapes in film publicity; pictorialism in Hepworth's features and 'actualities'; encounters between urban and rural in British film; the popular genre of the racing drama; British cinema's encounters with foreign landscapes; the politicisation of public space in Labour films; and commentaries on built environment in early films.
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