Jack Temple Kirby

Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination

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In Media-Made Dixie Jack Kirby shows how the American public's perceptions of the South have been influenced, even controlled, by the mass communications media. In this newly updated edition, Kirby surveys major movies, radio and television shows, plays, popular histories, and music from the turn of the century through the 1980s. He documents a progression in the national image of the South from the cracker wasteland of Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre to the antebellum wonderland of Hollywood's Shirley Temple-Bojangles Robinson musicals; from William Styron's searching account of the Old South in Confessions of Nat Turner to the New Sout… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8203-2388-6
EAN: 9780820323886
Produktnummer: 1523220
Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 217 S.
Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.8 cm x D1.6 cm 390 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 390

Über den Autor

Jack Temple Kirby is emeritus W. E. Smith Professor of American History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His most recent books include Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture and The Countercultural South (Georgia).