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Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South
Susan Courtney
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Description for Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South
Paperback. Analyzing an eclectic history of film and related media, Split Screen Nation argues that popular visions of the American West and the American South must be thought in relation to one another if we are to fully understand the marks both have left on popular ways of imagining the U.S. Num Pages: 328 pages, over 400 screen stills. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. .
Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became vivid in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012), itself arguably a belated response to Easy Rider (1969), this book helps us understand those films, and much more, through an eclectic history of U.S. screen media from the postwar era. It deftly analyzes not only Hollywood films and television, but also educational and corporate films, amateur films (aka "home movies"), and ... Read more
Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became vivid in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012), itself arguably a belated response to Easy Rider (1969), this book helps us understand those films, and much more, through an eclectic history of U.S. screen media from the postwar era. It deftly analyzes not only Hollywood films and television, but also educational and corporate films, amateur films (aka "home movies"), and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190459970
SKU
V9780190459970
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About Susan Courtney
Susan Courtney is an associate professor of Film and Media Studies and English at the University of South Carolina. There she also co-founded the Orphan Film Symposium and has directed the program in Film and Media Studies. She is the author of Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race, 1903-1967 (2005).
Reviews for Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South
Split Screen Nation is a model of rigorous historical scholarship committed to critiquing racist ideology and practices.
Jennifer Peterson, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
Split Screen Nation explores the crucial ideological gains and risks that arise from the imaginary splitting of the nation into West and South, into the screens realizations of national promise in one landscape ... Read more
Jennifer Peterson, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
Split Screen Nation explores the crucial ideological gains and risks that arise from the imaginary splitting of the nation into West and South, into the screens realizations of national promise in one landscape ... Read more