Students and film scholars will appreciate this unique volume.

Demonstrating the viability of rural cinema as a benchmark of national identity by bringing into critical focus the space the rural occupies, this work attempts

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Why Rural Schools Matter

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unque