Ben Beard

South Never Plays Itself (eBook, ePUB)

A Film Buff's Journey Through the South on Screen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South-as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived experience and a bitter legacy. Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliverance to Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself, author and film critic B. W. Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era, from President Wilson to President Trump, from musical to comedy to horror to crime to melodrama. Beard's idiosyncratic narrative-part cultural history, part film criticism, part memoir-journeys through genres and eras, issues and regions, smash blockbusters and microbudget indies to explore America's past and troubled present, seen through Hollywood's distorting lens. Opinionated, obsessive, sweeping, often combative, sometimes funny-a wild narrative tumble into culture both high and low-Beard attempts to answer the haunting question: what do movies know about the South that we don't?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NewSouth Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781588384249
• Artikelnr.: 60533635

Autorenporträt

BEN BEARD is a writer and librarian. He is the co-author of This Day in Civil Rights History and the author of Muhammad Ali: The Greatest and King Midas in Reverse. In the 2000s, Beard reviewed movies and wrote features for InSite Magazine, King Kudzu, and Filmmonthly.com, where he also worked as an editor. Beard, a native of Georgia who spent his formative years in the Florida Panhandle and Alabama, currently lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
ix 1 Birth of That Nation
3 2 William Faulkner and the Ghosts of Tobacco Road
21 3 Tennessee Williams and the Terrors of the Flesh
40 4 Deep South Sleaze and the Louisiana Decay
54 5 Gay, Cuban, Black, White, Jewish, Beachy, Druggy, and Crime-Infested: Florida
87 6 Bigger than Texas
132 7 Old Time Religion and the Klan
151 8 Night of the Hunter and the Southern horrors
189 9 Winter in Dixieland, crime and southern noir
229 10 Nashville, country, soul, blues, gut-bucket, and the king
272 11 Bill Clinton and the Return of the Women's Picture
299 12 President Bush and the Endless Wars
327 13 Black (un)like me
375 Epilogue: Other Voices, Other Rooms
398 Sources
409