American cinema and the southern imaginary /

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

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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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Barker, Deborah, 1956- (Editor), McKee, Kathryn B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.
Series:New southern studies.
Subjects:
Motion pictures and history.
Race relations in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Memory in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Southern States > In motion pictures.
Southern States.
Table of 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 / 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 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.

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