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ERIC Number: EJ347028
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Rural America in Film and Literature.
Dyer, Joyce
English Journal, v76 n1 p54-57 Jan 1987
Examines several novels, short stories, and movies in a mini-course on the image of rural America in popular culture to determine if the idyllic picture of country life sometimes favored in the media leads to a mythologizing of country life. (NKA)
Descriptors: Cultural Images, English Instruction, Films, Mass Media, Popular Culture, Rural Environment, Secondary Education, Social Problems, Stereotypes, United States Literature
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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