Reconstructing violence
Subtitle: the southern rape complex in film and literature
By: Deborah E. Barker
Series: Southern literary studies; Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780807160626
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures; Race relations in literature; Violence in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Violence in motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Confederate abjection in D.W. Griffith's early Civil War films and Thomas Dixon's Clansman; title: Taking the South out of the southern rape complex in The Story of Temple Drake; title: Believing in Mammy: Sanctuary (1961), the movie; title: The power of the false in Touch of Evil; title: "That man doesn't deserve equal rights": civil rights in Cape Fear; title: "Blind spots": the visual logic and historical context of To Kill a Mockingbird; title: Coda: A Time to Kill (1996) and post civil rights variations on the southern rape complex.