Southern history on screen : race and rights, 1976-2016 / edited by Bryan M. Jack. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

"It's now that counts": the South in Hollywood's Sixties films / History without a capital h: violence, commodification, and the perpetuation of the postmodern condition in Django unchained / You're not the South: The outlaw Josey Wales, Ride with the devil, and confederate guerrillas in modern films / Reconstruction on film: Free state of Jones and the historical memory of Reconstruction / From Griffith to Parker: the representation of African Americans and the U.S. South in The birth of a nation 1915-2016 / Roots reimagined / The South as a space/place of reclamation of black fe/male inheritance / Hollywood's southern strategy: portraying white Christianity in late twentieth-century civil rights melodramas / Lesbian invisibility continued: the "straight-washing" of southern women in The color purple and Fried green tomatoes / Intergenerational struggle and racial progress in The help and The butler / Oliver Gruner -- Daniel Farrell -- Bryan M. Jack -- Erik B. Alexander -- Caroline Schroeter -- Todd Simpson -- Kwakiutl Dreher -- Megan Hunt -- Gene Kelly -- Tatiana Prorokova.



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Race relations in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.
Historical films--History and criticism.--United States


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .S688 2019