Southern history on screen : race and rights, 1976-2016 / edited by Bryan M. Jack.
| Other author | Jack, Bryan M., 1969- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2019] |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | vi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Race and rights, 1976-2016 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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." --Amazon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2018025163 |
| ISBN | 9780813176444 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0813176441 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |