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Movie-Made Appalachia - History, Hollywood, and the Highland South (Paperback)
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Movie-Made Appalachia - History, Hollywood, and the Highland South (Paperback)
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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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