American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary

Name: American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
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ISBN: 9780820337104

ISBN-10: 0820337102

ISBN-13: 9780820337104

Edition: 2011

Authors: Briallen Hopper, Chris Cagel, Christopher J. Smith, Jay Watson, Leigh Anne Duck

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Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies. In their introduction, Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee argue that the southern imaginary in film is not contained by the boundaries of geography and genre; it is not an offshoot or subgenre of mainstream American film but is integral to the history and the development of American cinema. Ranging from the silent era to the present and considering Hollywood movies, documentaries, and independent films, the contributors incorporate…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Jay Watson, Oxford, Mississippi, is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the editor of Conversations with Larry Brown and coeditor of Faulkner and Whiteness ((both from University Press of Mississippi).