American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary

Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.

About the author

Deborah Barker (Editor)
DEBORAH BARKER is an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: The Portrait of the Woman Artist and coeditor of Shakespeare and Gender: A History.

Kathryn McKee (Editor)
KATHRYN McKEE is the McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and English at the University of Mississippi. She has published in a range of journals, including American Literature, Legacy, Mississippi Quarterly, and Southern Literary Journal.

Summary

Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah (EDT)/ Mckee Barker, Kathryn McKee
• Assisted by: Deborah Barker (Editor), Kathryn McKee (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780820337104
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3710-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: New Southern Studies; The New Southern Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General