Nine papers about film and cinema were presented in three panels at Rural History2017 in Leuven from 11th to 14th september 2017.
Panel 2.2: Transforming rural societies in Europe under the eye of the camera for farm audiences, organised by Peter Veer
- Pests and Vermin on film: campaigns of eradication against infestation by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (UK), by Karen Sayer
- Blending agricultural pedagogy and cinematographic narrative: the ‘silent revolution’ in the agricultural cinema of the 1950s, by Edouard Lynch
- Rural social engineering in Dutch extension films, 1945-1985, by Peter Veer
- Representing the countryside in Spanish rural cinema from the 1950s. The case of Surcos and La venganza, by Aïda Antonino-Queralt
Panel 4.2: Cinema and the modernization of the European countryside, organised by Judith Thissen
- ‘The wonder-seeking mind of the peasant’: Cinema’s emergence in rural Ireland, by Denis Condon
- Bio i Bergslagen: Mapping rural cinema in Sweden 1956-76, by Åsa Jernudd and Mats Lundmark
- Greetings from the countryside: Picture postcards and the promotion of rural modernity in the Netherlands, 1945-1970, by Judith Thissen
- Moving pictures for Peasants: The Kinofikacyja of rural Lithuania in the Stalinist era, by Lina Kaminskaite-Jancoriene
Panel 8.10: From rural progress to agricultural modernisation: 1918-1960, organised by Juan Pan-Montojo and Lourenzo Fernández Prieto
- Disseminating modernity in the French countryside: the tractor in the films of the Ministry of Agriculture, 1920-1960, by Edouard Lynch
