John C. Inscoe 
Movie-Made Appalachia [EPUB ebook] 
History, Hollywood, and the Highland South

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While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and meaningful depictions of Appalachia’s people. Surveying some two dozen films and the literary and historical sources from which they were adapted, John C. Inscoe argues that in the American imagination Appalachia has long represented far more than deprived and depraved hillbillies. Rather, the films he highlights serve as effective conduits into the region’s past, some grounded firmly in documented realities and life stories, others only loosely so. In either case, they deserve more credit than they have received for creating sympathetic and often complex characters who interact within families, households, and communities amidst a wide array of historical contingencies. They provide credible and informative narratives that respect the specifics of the times and places in which they are set.
Having used many of these movies as teaching tools in college classrooms, Inscoe demonstrates the cumulative effect of analyzing them in terms of shared themes and topics to convey far more generous insights into Appalachia and its history than one would have expected to emerge from southern California’s ‘dream factory.’

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John C. Inscoe is the Albert B. Saye Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Georgia.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 248 ● ISBN 9781469660158 ● Dimensione 12.1 MB ● Casa editrice The University of North Carolina Press ● Città Chapel Hill ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2020 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7599788 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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