Framing the South : Hollywood, television, and race during the Civil Rights struggle / / Allison Graham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827243403321
• Autore: Graham Allison
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-8018-7571-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6275
• Soggetti: Racism in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; Appalachians (People) in motion pictures; Southern States In motion pictures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Ramapping Dogpatch -- 1. "The Purest of God's Creatures": White Women, Blood Pollution, and Southern Sexuality -- 2. Sentimental Educations: Romance, Race, and White Redemption -- 3. Natural Acts: Hillbillies, Delinquents, and the Disappearing Psyche -- 4. Reeducating the Southerner: Elvis, Rednecks, and Hollywood's "White Negro" -- 5. Civil Rights Films and the New Red Menace: The Legacy of the 1960s
• Sommario/riassunto: "Graham deftly explores the ways Hollywood filmmakers and television producers tried to reformulate stock southern characters in light of rapidly changing social relations... A fascinating and compelling cultural history." -- American Studies.