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.

Summary

Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.

Ranging from the silent era to the present and considering Hollywood movies, documentaries, and independent films, the contributors incorporate the latest scholarship in a range of disciplines. The volume is divided into three sections:"Rereading the Hollywood South" uses new critical perspectives to reassess classic Hollywood films;"Viewing the Civil Rights South"examines changing approaches to viewing race and class in the post-civil rights era; and "Crossing Borders" considers the influence of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and media studies on recent southern films

"Placing the New Southern Studies in conversation with film studies, this book is simply the best edited collection available on film and the U.S. South.--Grace Hale. University of Virginia

"Besides adeptly taking on concepts and questions circulating in the field, American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary intervenes in new exciting ways, ̀rereading the South'(old, new, and postmodern) and insightfully interrogating the South on film, from Birth of a Nation to ̀Birmingham Sunday, ' Slacker, and beyond."--Ed Guerrero New York University

"Edgy yet teachable, with essays by many of the best younger scholars in the field, Barker and McKee's landmark collection reminds us why ̀the South' remains central to the Hollywood--and indie--imaginary."--Jon Smith, coeditor of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies --Book Jacket

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 374 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780820337241, 0820337242, 1283031205, 9781283031202, 9786613031204, 6613031208
oclc:ocn706078532
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. Bernstein -- 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 sexualit…

Subjects

African Americans in motion pictures Aufsatzsammlung Cinéma et histoire Geschichte Mémoire au cinéma Memory in motion pictures Motion pictures Motion pictures and history Noirs américains au cinéma PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video Race relations in motion pictures Relations raciales au cinéma Southern States Southern States -- In motion pictures