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Zusatztext Covering both the famous and the obscure, Jackson's exciting and often surprising volume shows how integral southern topics and southern people were to filmmaking through the 1940s. Informationen zum Autor Robert Jackson is an James G. Watson Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, where he is also affiliated with programs in Film Studies and African American Studies. Specializing in cultural studies of the modern United States, he works at the intersection of literature, film and media studies, and social history. Among his prior publications is Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation (2005). Klappentext Fade In, Crossroads is a history of the relations between black and white southerners and films from the silent era to midcentury. It illustrates how the rise and fall of the American film industry coincided with that of the South's most important modern product and export: Jim Crow segregation. Zusammenfassung Fade In, Crossroads is a history of the relations between black and white southerners and films from the silent era to midcentury. It illustrates how the rise and fall of the American film industry coincided with that of the South's most important modern product and export: Jim Crow segregation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction At the Crossroads Chapter 1. This Southern Advent Chapter 2. Migrant Media Chapter 3. The Silver Dream Accumulated Chapter 4. And the War Came Chapter 5. A Theater of Violence Chapter 6. The Matter of Treatment Chapter 7. Pruning Knife Busy Conclusion Scattering into Every Crossroad Index
