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Hollywood's Image of the South A Century of Southern Films
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Larry Langman, David Ebner
ISBN: 0-313-31886-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31886-3
252 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2001
List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £72.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: From the 1920s and 1930s, when American cinema depicted the South as a demi-paradise populated by wealthy landowners, glamorous belles, and happy slaves, through later, more realistic depictions of the region in films based on works by Erskine Caldwell, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren, Hollywood's view of the South has been as ever-changing as the place itself. This comprehensive reference guide to Southern films offers credits, plot descriptions, and analyses of how the stereotypes and characterizations in each film contribute to our understanding of a most contentious American time and place.

Organized by subjects including Economic Conditions, Plantation Life, The Ku Klux Klan, and The New Politics, Hollywood's Image of the South seeks to coin a new genre by describing its conventions and attitudes. Even so, the Southern film crosses all known generic boundaries, including the comedy, the women's film, the noir, and many others. This invaluable guide to an under-recognized category of American cinema illustrates how much there is to learn about a time and place from watching the movies that aim to capture it.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction
    Abbreviations
    Plantation Life and Cotton Fields
    Slaves and Slavery
    Southern Aristocrats
    Southern Belles
    Economic Conditions
    Political Conditions
    Social Conditions
    The Courtroom and Early Justice
    Reconstruction and the Carpetbaggers
    The Ku Klux Klan
    Discrimination
    Feuds and Feuding
    Southern Decadence
    Family Survival
    Economics in the New South
    The New Politics
    New Social Conditions
    Law and Order
    Show Business
    The Civil War
    Bibliography
    Title Index
About the Author: LARRY LANGMAN is the author of A Guide to Silent Westerns (Greenwood, 1992), A Guide to American Crime Films of the Forties and Fifties (Greenwood, 1995), and American Film Cycles: The Silent Era (Greenwood, 1998).

DAVID EBNER has taught mathematics and history on the university and secondary school levels and has published extensively in professional journals. His books include The Encyclopedia of American Spy Films.
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