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Title American cinema and the southern imaginary [electronic resource] / edited by Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee.

Imprint Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, 2011.

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Description ix, 374 p.
Series New southern studies
New southern studies.
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.
Race relations in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Memory in motion pictures.
Southern States -- In motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Barker, Deborah, 1955-
McKee, Kathryn B.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780820333809 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820333808 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820337104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820337102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820337241 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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