Chapter Six Landscapes in Terminal Crisis: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One Against the “Propertied Gaze” – Rural Poverty in the United States and its Cinematic Representations 7
6. Chapter Two From Landschaft to Landscape: Perspectives and Transformations in Geography and the Cinema 29
7. Chapter Three Wild Country – National Identity and Landscape in the United States 50
8. Chapter Four Disrupted Geography and the Criminal Margins – Winter’s Bone (2010) 104
9. Chapter Five The Wilderness Illusion – Leave No Trace (2018) 130
10. Chapter Six Landscapes in Terminal Crisis: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) 153
11. Chapter Seven Vestiges of Oppression: Ballast (2008) 178
12. Conclusion Towards a “Landscape Consciousness”? 208
13. Bibliography 219
14. Selected Filmography — New Rural Cinema 229
15. General Filmography 231
16. Index 233