Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976-2016 - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0813176441 ISBN 13: 9780813176444

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2019

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""The collection provides a welcome relief to the stereotypical image of the region and, in the process, reminds readers that southerners, like most Americans, endure a history whose past casts a shadow that challenges the present and colors the future."" -- D. O. Cullen, Arkansas Tech University, CHOICE, July 2019

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Hollywood films have been influential in the portrayal and representation of race relations in the South and how African Americans are cinematically depicted in history, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) to The Help (2011) and 12 Years a Slave (2013). With an ability to reach mass audiences, films represent the power to influence and shape the public's understanding of our country's past, creating lasting images - both real and imagined - in American culture. In Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976-2016, editor Bryan Jack brings together essays from an international roster of scholars to provide new critical perspectives on Hollywood's relationships between historical films, Southern history, identity, and the portrayal of Jim Crow-era segregation. This collection analyzes films through the lens of religion, politics, race, sex, and class, building a comprehensive look at the South as seen on screen. By illuminating depictions of the southern belle in Gone with the Wind, the religious rhetoric of southern white Christians and the progressive identity of the "white heroes" in A Time to Kill (1996) and Mississippi Burning (1988), as well as many other archetypes found across films, this book explores the intersection between film, historical memory, and southern identity.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0813176441
• ISBN 13: 9780813176444
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
• Herausgeber: Jack Bryan M.