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Godfrey Cheshire
‘Personal in My Memory’: The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers [EPUB ebook]
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue

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Personal in My Memory’
The South in Popular Film
by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers
with an introduction by Godfrey Cheshire
Alice Walker, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, Joe Flora, Kenneth Turan, Elizabeth Spencer, and Andrew Garrison tell how their favorite Southern films marked them indelibly.
‘We have two imaginary kingdoms. One, ‘the South, ‘ exists primarily in song, oral traditions and folkways, native art and literature. The other, ‘Hollywood, ‘ creates mass-produced audiovisual entertainments for American and world audiences, and develops its own mythology.’

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Godfrey Cheshire is a film critic, journalist, and the writer-director of Moving Midway, a documentary about his family’s North Carolina plantation.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780807882771 ● File size 3.0 MB ● Publisher The University of North Carolina Press ● City Chapel Hill ● Country US ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6469183 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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