Southern history on screen : race and rights, 1976-2016 /
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...
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| Idioma: | anglès |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2019]
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Taula de continguts:
- "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.