Southern history on screen : race and rights, 1976-2016 / edited by Bryan M. Jack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jack, Bryan M., 1969- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--In motion pictures.

Southern States.

Race relations in motion pictures.

Race in motion pictures.

Culture in motion pictures.

Historical films--United States--History and criticism.

Historical films.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 reach mass audiences, films represent the power to influence and shape the public's understanding of our country's past, creating lasting images--both real and imagined--in American culture. In Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976-2016, editor Bryan Jack brings together essays from an international roster of scholars to provide new critical perspectives on Hollywood's relationships between historical films, Southern history, identity, and the portrayal of Jim Crow-era segregation. This collection analyzes films through the lens of religion, politics, race, sex, and class, building a comprehensive look at the South as seen on screen. By illuminating depictions of the southern belle in Gone with the Wind, the religious rhetoric of southern white Christians and the progressive identity of the "white heroes" in A Time to Kill (1996) and Mississippi Burning (1988), as well as many other archetypes found across films, this book explores the intersection between film, historical memory, and southern identity.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on Project MUSE; title from digital cover (viewed on December 07, 2018).

ISBN:

9780813176468

0813176468

Publisher Number:

40028788647

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.