Description: 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.
Brief description: LEIGH ANNE DUCK is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis.
Review Quotes:
Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee's American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary draws the imagined South brilliantly and broadly, as a set of images, sounds, and narratives that help produce an American cinema and as a reservoir for values in need of salvage or denial and contradictions in need of resolution. Placing the New Southern Studies in conversation with film studies, this book is simply the best edited collection available on film and the U.S. South.
--Grace Hale "associate professor of history and American studies, University of Virginia"