Southern history on screen : race and rights, 1976-2016

Jack, Bryan M., 1969- (editor.).

Record details

OCLC: on1076830655
ISBN: 0813176441
ISBN: 9780813176444
ISBN: 081317645X
ISBN: 9780813176451
ISBN: 0813176468
ISBN: 9780813176468
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Published: Lexington :University Press of Kentucky,[2019]
Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2019]

Content descriptions

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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.