"People in Stockholm are smarter than countryside folks"-Reproducing urban and rural imaginaries in film and life

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-104

  Eriksson, Madeleine ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Class; Film; Internal orientalism; Media representations; Rurality

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CULTURE; LIFESTYLE; MASS MEDIA; ORIENTALISM; RURAL AREA;

STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

EID: 77953121121     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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