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Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 159 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as "pure white stock" and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith McCarroll's Unwhite analyzes the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American...
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Many of American cinema's most defining movies have roots in the South. Be they films that excite (No Country for Old Men), amuse (My Cousin Vinny), or disturb (Deliverance), Southern movies remain some of the most evocative in modern filmmaking. The South Never Plays Itself examines the historical and cultural legacy of the South and the silver screen, a relationship as tangled and inextricable as Spanish moss. From the racist propaganda of The...
Author
Series
Wishin' and hopin' volume 2
Language
English
Description
Felix Funicello runs a Monday night film club which meets in an old theater. One evening, he is visited by the ghost of a female director from the silent film era. She takes him on a journey to his past where Felix sees scenes on the screen which help him gain an understanding of women who have been important to him throughout his life.
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976--2016, editor Bryan Jack brings together essays from an international roster of scholars to provide new critical perspectives on Hollywood's relationships between historical films, Southern history, identity, and the portrayal of Jim Crow--era segregation. This collection analyzes films through the lens of religion, politics, race, sex, and class, building a comprehensive look at the South as seen...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, onscreen and behind the scenes. He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen:...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A critic and historian who has been watching cinema for seventy years and has seen almost nineteen thousand films presents a tour of his favorite movies, highlighting forgotten treasures and explaining what makes a film a hit or a flop.
14) Authors on film
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Physical Desc
xiii, 303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art-house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations with friends, we all need ways to watch and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can everyday viewers determine what makes a good movie? In Talking Pictures, veteran film critic Ann Hornaday walks us through the production of a typical movie-from writing the script...
17) Alamo movies
Author
Publisher
Old Mill Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
20) Himalaya: a film
Author
Publisher
H. Abrams
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
162 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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