Media-made Dixie : the South in the American imagination / Jack Temple Kirby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirby, Jack Temple.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Southern States--Historiography.

Southern States.

Southern States--Civilization.

Civilization.

Mass media--United States--History.

Mass media.

United States.

History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xx, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1986]

Summary:

In this book, Kirby shows how the American public's perceptions of the South have been influenced, even controlled, by the mass communications media. Kirby looks at major movies, radio and television shows, plays, popular histories, and music from the turn of the century through the 1980s. He documents a progression in the national image of the South from the cracker wasteland of Erskine Caldwell's God's little acre to the antebellum wonderland of Hollywood's Shirley Temple-'Bojangles' Robinson musicals; from William Stryon's searching account of the Old South in Confessions of Nat Turner to the New South ingenuity of Jimmy Carter and Ted Turner; and from the regressive backroads of television's The Dukes of Hazzard to the complex reconciliation found in Alice Walker's and Steven Speilberg's The color purple.

Contents:

Griffith, Dunning, and "the great fact of race"

Claude Bowers and the establishment

The embarrassing new south

The grand old south

The visceral south

Dixie mellow

The devilish south

Dixie redux and demise

Re-redux and reconciliation.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 203-212.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0820308854

9780820308852

0820323888

9780820323886

OCLC:

13581108