Southerners on film
Subtitle: essays on Hollywood portrayals since the 1970s
By: edited by Andrew B. Leiter
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780786449606
Subjects: Motion pictures; In motion pictures; Southern States; Culture in motion pictures; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures; History
Description: "This collection of 15 essays examines the problem of Southern identity in film since the civil rights era. Fresh insights are provided on familiar topics, such as the redneck image, transitions to modernity and the prevalence of the Southern gothic. Other essays reflect the reinvigorated and expanding field of new Southern studies and topics."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Andrew B. Leiter; title: Multiculturalism and melodrama : Southern white heroines of the 1980s / Amy Corbin; title: You're only as good as your last game : remember The Titans remembers civil rights / Oliver Gruner; title: "Every man has the right to contribute a verse" : representin' Black masculinity and the South in three popular hip hop films / Courtney George; title: "That old-timey music" : nostalgia and the Southern tradition in O brother, where art thou? / Andrew B. Leiter; title: American dreams and country music : Nashville and Payday / Hugh Ruppersburg; title: Gender, regional identity, and The Civil War : politics of the North and South in Sweet home Alabama and Junebug / Landon Palmer; title: The screen kallikak : white trash for white guilt in post-Vietnam American film / C. Scott Combs; title: The haunting of a Black Southern past : considering conjure in To sleep with anger / Phillip Lamarr Cunningham; title: Practice in a cemetery : Ross McElwee's North Carolina documentaries / Stephen Broomer; title: The Junebug dilemma / Bryan Giemza; title: Imagined realities : Appalachia, Arabia, and Orientalism in Songcatcher and The sheik / Thomas R. Britt and Usame Tunagur; title: Adaptation and Sunshine state : nature and nostalgia in contemporary Florida films / Marlisa Santos; title: Reel horror : Louisiana's vanishing wetlands and the threat of Hollywood (mis)representation / Maria Hebert-Leiter; title: An aesthetic of play : a contemporary cinema of South-sploitation / James A. Crank; title: "You taste of America" : Talladega nights, Deliverance, and Southern studies / Tara Powell.