E-book
Southern history on screen : race and rights, 1976-2016 / edited by Bryan M. Jack.
Record details
- OCLC: on1076830655
- ISBN: 9780813176468 (electronic book)
- ISBN: 0813176468 (electronic book)
- ISBN: 9780813176451
- ISBN: 081317645X
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Published: Lexington :University Press of Kentucky,[2019]
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Content descriptions
| Note: | Includes index. |
| Contents: | "It's now that counts": the South in Hollywood's Sixties films / Oliver Gruner -- History without a capital h: violence, commodification, and the perpetuation of the postmodern condition in Django unchained / Daniel Farrell -- You're not the South: The outlaw Josey Wales, Ride with the devil, and confederate guerrillas in modern films / Bryan M. Jack -- Reconstruction on film: Free state of Jones and the historical memory of Reconstruction / Erik B. Alexander -- From Griffith to Parker: the representation of African Americans and the U.S. South in The birth of a nation 1915-2016 / Caroline Schroeter -- Roots reimagined / Todd Simpson -- The South as a space/place of reclamation of black fe/male inheritance / Kwakiutl Dreher -- Hollywood's southern strategy: portraying white Christianity in late twentieth-century civil rights melodramas / Megan Hunt -- Lesbian invisibility continued: the "straight-washing" of southern women in The color purple and Fried green tomatoes / Gene Kelly -- Intergenerational struggle and racial progress in The help and The butler / Tatiana Prorokova. |
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| Subject: | Southern States > In motion pictures. Race relations in motion pictures. Race in motion pictures. Culture in motion pictures. Historical films > United States > History and criticism. |
