Rural Cinema

N The Past Decade, Spanning From The Aftermath Of The 2008 Financial Crisis To The Beginning Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Rural Poverty In The United States Has Risen Dramatically. The Impact Of The Pandemic Is Set To Intensify These Inequalities As The Decades Of Neoliberal Dismantling Of Public Healthcare And Other Social Institutions Leave Inhabitants Of Impoverished Rural Areas Particularly Vulnerable.even Before This Current Exacerbation, Representations Of Rural Landscape In American Cinema Have Sought To Spatially Visualize The Countrys Social Inequalities And Focus On The Victims Of Poverty And Marginalization. The Films Discussed In This Monograph, Ballast (2008), Winters Bone (2010), Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012), And Leave No Trace (2018), Address Deep Rural Poverty In A Complex Manner And Facilitate An Interactive, Social Understanding Of Landscape.