American cinema and the southern imaginary [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460353303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens [Ga.], : University of Georgia Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-03120-5; 9786613031204; 0-8203-3724-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Collana: New southern studies
• Altri autori (Persone): BarkerDeborah <1955->; McKeeKathryn B
• Disciplina: 791.43/65875
• Soggetti: Motion pictures and history; Race relations in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; Memory in motion pictures; Electronic books.; Southern States In motion pictures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.