Analyzing an eclectic history of film and related media, Split Screen Nation argues that popular visions of the American West and the American South must be thought in relation to one another if we are to fully understand the marks both have left on popular ways of imagining the U.S.
Analyzing an eclectic history of film and related media, Split Screen Nation argues that popular visions of the American West and the American South must be thought in relation to one another if we are to fully understand the marks both have left on popular ways of imagining the U.S.
Susan Courtney is an associate professor of Film and Media Studies and English at the University of South Carolina. There she also co-founded the Orphan Film Symposium and has directed the program in Film and Media Studies. She is the author of Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race, 1903-1967 (2005).
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Illustrations * Preface * Acknowledgements * About the Companion Website * Part 1: Projecting Region, Imagining Nation * Teaser (Hollywood) : Easy Rider Calls for a Genealogy * Introduction: Split Screen Nation * Part 2: Remapping the Nation on Multiple Screens * Teaser (16mm and archive.org): Camera Road Trip * Chapter 1: Screen Maps for Model Citizen-SpectatorsChapter 2: Frontier Vistas and Plantation Sutures: Hollywood Forms of the American Paradox INTERSTITIAL TEASER (Multimedia): "John Wayne" versus "Tennessee Williams" * * Part 3: The Leaky South * Teaser (TV): Enjoying the "Southern Decadence Blues" with Hugh Hefner * Chapter 3: How the South Became Sexually Perverse in the Civil Rights Era * Part 4: The Empty West * Teaser (media saturation): Robert Frank's Postcards from the Edge * Chapter 4 : Expanding Views of a Filmic Proving Ground * Epilogue: Walking/Looking into the Toxic Cloud * Notes * Index
* List of Illustrations * Preface * Acknowledgements * About the Companion Website * Part 1: Projecting Region, Imagining Nation * Teaser (Hollywood) : Easy Rider Calls for a Genealogy * Introduction: Split Screen Nation * Part 2: Remapping the Nation on Multiple Screens * Teaser (16mm and archive.org): Camera Road Trip * Chapter 1: Screen Maps for Model Citizen-SpectatorsChapter 2: Frontier Vistas and Plantation Sutures: Hollywood Forms of the American Paradox INTERSTITIAL TEASER (Multimedia): "John Wayne" versus "Tennessee Williams" * * Part 3: The Leaky South * Teaser (TV): Enjoying the "Southern Decadence Blues" with Hugh Hefner * Chapter 3: How the South Became Sexually Perverse in the Civil Rights Era * Part 4: The Empty West * Teaser (media saturation): Robert Frank's Postcards from the Edge * Chapter 4 : Expanding Views of a Filmic Proving Ground * Epilogue: Walking/Looking into the Toxic Cloud * Notes * Index
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