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This collection offers a combination of insightful media analyses and examinations of knowledge construction that focus on popular culture and its portrayals of rural people and communities in the United States.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Need to Reimagine Rural, Gregory M. Fulkerson & Alexander R. Thomas
Part I: Popular Media Representations of Rural
Chapter 2: Representations of Rural in Popular North American Television, Gregory M. Fulkerson & Brian M. Lowe
Chapter 3: Portrayals of Rural People and Places in Reality Television Programming: How Popular American Cable Series Misrepresent Rural Realities, Karl A. Jicha
Chapter 4: Inbred Horror Revisited: The Fear of the Rural in Twenty-First Century Backwoods Horror Films, Karen Hayden
Chapter 5: Reconsidering the Rural in the End: Rural Representations in Post-Apocalyptic Settings, Brian M. Lowe
Part II: The Sources of Rural Meaning and Knowledge Construction
Chapter 6: Urbanormativity in News Coverage of Rural Life, Pilar Erin McKay
Chapter 7: Cow College and Critical Rural Knowledge, Barbara Ching
Chapter 8: Common Core, STEM, and Rural schools: Views from Students and States, Leanne M. Avery & John W. Sipple
Chapter 9: Conclusion: Reimagining Rur
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Gregory M. Fulkerson, Ph.D., is professor of sociology and chair of geography and environmental sustainability at SUNY Oneonta. Along with Dr. Alex Thomas, he is co-editor of the Urban-Rural Dynamics book series. He is the author of Community in Urban-Rural Systems, and co-author of City and Country, Urbanormativity, and Critical Rural Theory. His research focuses on social capital, community development, globalization, the environment, and urban-rural issues.Alexander R. Thomas, Ph.D., is professor of sociology at SUNY Oneonta. He is co-editor, with Dr. Gregory Fulkerson, of the Urban-Rural Dynamics book series. He has published numerous books and articles on cities and their relationship with the countryside, including In Gotham's Shadow, The Evolution of the Ancient City, and Critical Rural Theory. He is also author of the newly released book The Sociological Predicament.Gregory M. Fulkerson, Ph.D., is professor of sociology and chair of geography and environmental sustainability at SUNY Oneonta. Along with Dr. Alex Thomas, he is co-editor of the Urban-Rural Dynamics book series. He is the author of Community in Urban-Rural Systems, and co-author of City and Country, Urbanormativity, and Critical Rural Theory. His research focuses on social capital, community development, globalization, the environment, and urban-rural issues.Alexander R. Thomas, Ph.D., is professor of sociology at SUNY Oneonta. He is co-editor, with Dr. Gregory Fulkerson, of the Urban-Rural Dynamics book series. He has published numerous books and articles on cities and their relationship with the countryside, including In Gotham's Shadow, The Evolution of the Ancient City, and Critical Rural Theory. He is also author of the newly released book The Sociological Predicament.
