The size of the properties entailed that neighboring farms were often miles away, creating the image of isolation and a secluded life. The ideals of owning a piece of this land, building a house on one's land in the wild or farmed landscape. The show depicted a hard life in an open range.
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To pick one example, the television series Little House on the Prairie shows many features still associated with the rural. The ideal of rural landscape was constructed by the media, films, poems, songs and many more factors. Constructed is the important word in this context. In the description of rural countryside none of these adjectives fit, but even though cities are a desired living space for numerous people, rural life is constructed to be desirable, as for example by owning a weekend escape outside the city in the countryside. Typical adjectives associated with these urban areas are big, loud - not with a negative connotation, but rather as in free, connected, but still anonymous if desired, and man built. The stereo-typical ideal city in mind might be Los Angeles, or New York. The appeal seems to lay in the restless and ever so fast changing lifestyle. The importance of urbanity has grown through popular culture and the tendency of young people striving after a life in the city. Bell claims that rural is nothing else than “urbanism's other” (150), and therefore, what society seems to perceive as idyll in the rural landscape, is a picture created in and through the city. With regards to rural this would be urban. The rural idyllĪs in most binary thought patterns, the definition of one term requires a distinction from the contrary term. The last part will explain how the use of idyll and anti-idyll can influence the perception of brutality. In the analysis The Laramie Project (2002) and Boys Don't Cry (1999) will be used to show the utilization of landscape. Further the use of landscape in cinema will be described. In order to answer this question, the construction of rural idyll will be explained, as will be the consequent concept of anti-idyll. If either to underline the beauty of a love story or to use the idyll as a way to contrast with a plot telling a gruesome story.Ĭan the landscape of the Midwest, in the sense of a stereotypical idyll, be utilized to emphasize the brutality of hate crimes? Filmmakers and writers widely put this idyll to use with different goals. Mostly, it is not only a stereotypical way of seeing the Midwestern towns and their residents, but it describes the idyll of an American town. The rural idyll is an expression that everybody can link at least a few thoughts and images to. The wide open range of the country is subject to many songs and more so to many movies. Through various documentaries and movies a certain image of this area has been formed, a stereotypical ideal image so to say. The Great Plains and acres of farmland might be some of the first associations one has when thinking about the Midwest. While the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge or skyscrapers are common images that might come to mind when thinking about the city, the stereotypical associations with the Midwest are far different.
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