Hollywood's image of the South : a century of Southern films / compiled by Larry Langman and David Ebner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langman, Larry.

Contributor:

Ebner, David, 1942-

Series:

Bibliographies and indexes in the performing arts 0742-6933 ; no. 25.

Bibliographies and indexes in the performing arts, 0742-6933 ; no. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--In motion pictures.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 232 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

Contents:

1. Plantation Life and the Cotton Fields Back Home 1

2. Slaves and Slavery 9

3. Southern Aristocrats 19

4. Southern Belles 29

5. Economic Conditions 37

6. Political Conditions 47

7. Social Conditions 55

8. The Courtroom and Early Justice 67

9. Reconstruction and the Carpetbaggers 79

10. The Ku Klux Klan 87

11. Discrimination 93

12. Feuds and Feuding 101

13. Southern Decadence and Dark Shadows 109

14. Family Survival 123

15. Economics in the New South 135

16. The New Politics 149

17. New Social Conditions 159

18. Law and Order 173

19. Show Business: Way Down South in Dixie 189

20. The Civil War 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-226) and index.

ISBN:

0313318867

OCLC:

47049920