American cinema and the southern imaginary

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Barker, Deborah,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, 2011.
Series:New southern studies
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10453779
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 / Richβe 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. Bernstei
  • 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 Dβejαa 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.