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Title Reimagining rural : urbanormative portrayals of rural life / edited by Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 166 pages)
Series Studies in urban-rural dynamics
Contents Introduction : the need to reimagine rural / Gregory M. Fulkerson & Alexander R. Thomas -- Popular media representations of rural -- Representations of rural in popular North American television / Gregory M. Fulkerson & Brian M. Lowe -- Portrayals of rural people and places in reality television programming : how popular american cable series misrepresent rural realities / Karl A. Jicha -- Inbred horror revisited : the fear of the rural in twenty-first century backwoods horror films / Karen Hayden -- Reconsidering the rural in the end : rural representations in post-apocalyptic settings / Brian M. Lowe -- The sources of rural meaning and knowledge construction -- Urbanormativity in news coverage of rural life / Pilar Erin McKay -- Cow college and critical rural knowledge / Barbara Ching -- Common core, stem, and rural schools : views from students and states / Leanne M. Avery & John W. Sipple -- Conclusion: reimagining rural / Gregory M. Fulkerson & Alexander R. Thomas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2016)
Subject City and town life -- United States
Popular culture -- United States.
Sociology, Rural.
rural sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
City and town life.
Popular culture.
Sociology, Rural.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Fulkerson, Gregory M., editor
Thomas, Alexander R., 1969- editor.
LC no. 2016021939
ISBN 9781498534079
1498534074