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Hollywoods Image of the South: A Century of Southern Films (Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts, 25)
Hollywoods Image of the South A Century of Southern Films - Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts, 25 Author:Larry Langman, David Ebner From the 1920s and 1930s, when American cinema depicted the South as a demi-paradise populated by wealthy landowners, glamorous belles, and happy slaves, through later, more realistic depictions of the region in films based on works by Erskine Caldwell, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren, Hollywood's view of the South h... more »as been as ever-changing as the place itself. This comprehensive reference guide to Southern films offers credits, plot descriptions, and analyses of how the stereotypes and characterizations in each film contribute to our understanding of a most contentious American time and place.« less