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16%OFFAllison Graham - Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle - 9780801874451 - V9780801874451
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Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle

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Description for Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle Paperback. She concludes with a provocative analysis of Forrest Gump, identifying the popular film as a retelling of post-World War II Southern history. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23, 23 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJPK; APF; APT; HBTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
What patterns emerge in media coverage and character depiction of Southern men and women, blacks and whites, in the years between 1954 and 1976? How do portrayals of the region and the equal rights movement illuminate the spirit and experience of the South-and of the nation as a whole? In Framing the South, Allison Graham examines the ways in which the media, particularly television and film, presented Southerners during the period of the civil rights revolution. Graham analyzes depictions of southern race and social class in a wide range of Hollywood films-including A Streetcar Named Desire, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801874451
SKU
V9780801874451
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About Allison Graham
Allison Graham, winner of the Erik Barnouw Award of the Organization of American Historians in 1994, is a professor of media and communication studies at the University of Memphis.

Reviews for Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle
A resourceful, imaginative, sure-handed analysis by an author who knows both how movies and television get made and how to get at what those products mean.
Thomas Cripps Journal of Southern History This text would be an excellent place for readers who have very little background in film or media history to begin delving into the ongoing discussion of ... Read more

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