American cinema and the southern imaginary [electronic resource] / edited by Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee. - Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, 2011. - ix, 374 p. - New southern studies . - New southern studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Riché 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 Déjà 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.


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ebrary,
2011.
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Motion pictures and history.
Race relations in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Memory in motion pictures.


Southern States--In motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.S66 / A44 2011eb

791.43/65875