American cinema and the southern imaginary

by Barker, Deborah McKee, Kathryn B.

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Title Statements

Full title :American cinema and the southern imaginary / edited by Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Georgia Press
Place of Publication:Athens Ga
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 374 p.)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780820333809, 0820333808, 9780820337104, 0820337102, 9780820337241, 0820337242
oclc:ocn897044116
LC Classification:PN1995.9.S66
Dewey Decimal:791.43 65875

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 / Riché 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 Déjà vu forgot: memory, mapping, and the Americanization of New Orleans / Briallen Hopper -- Humid time: independent film, gay sexualities, and sou…

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African Americans in motion pictures Cinéma et histoire Mémoire au cinéma Memory in motion pictures Motion pictures Motion pictures and history Noirs américains au cinéma Race relations in motion pictures Relations raciales au cinéma Southern States Southern States -- In motion pictures