Description |
ix, 374 p. |
Series |
New southern studies |
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New southern studies.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: the southern imaginary / Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee -- Rereading the Hollywood South. The celluloid war before the birth: race and history in early American film / Robert Jackson -- Mammy's "mules" and the rules of marriage in Gone with the Wind / Riche Richardson -- Bodies and expectations: chain gang discipline / Leigh Anne Duck -- The postwar cinematic South: realism and the politics of liberal consensus / Chris Cagle -- A "professional southerner" in the Hollywood studio system: Lamar Trotti at work, 1934-1952 / Matthew H. Bernstei -- Viewing the civil rights South. Black passing and white pluralism: imitation of life in the civil rights struggle / Ryan DeRosa -- Remembering Birmingham Sunday: Spike Lee's 4 little girls / Valerie Smith -- Exploitation movies and the freedom struggle of the 1960s / Sharon Monteith -- Crossing borders. Mapping out a postsouthern cinema: three contemporary films / Jay Watson -- The native screen: American Indians in contemporary southern film / Melanie R. Benson -- The city that Deja vu forgot: memory, mapping, and the Americanization of New Orleans / Briallen Hopper -- Humid time: independent film, gay sexualities, and southernscapes / R. Bruce Brasell -- Papa Legba and the liminal spaces of the Blues: roots music in Deep South film / Christopher J. Smith -- Revamping the South: thoughts on labor, relationality, and southern representation / Tara McPherson. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Motion pictures and history.
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Race relations in motion pictures.
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African Americans in motion pictures.
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Memory in motion pictures.
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Southern States -- In motion pictures.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Barker, Deborah, 1955-
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McKee, Kathryn B.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
9780820333809 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0820333808 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780820337104 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0820337102 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780820337241 (electronic bk.) |
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