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Item Details
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MEDIA-MADE DIXIE
THE SOUTH IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION |
| By: |
Jack Temple Kirby |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£27.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820323888 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820323886 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 October, 1986 |
| Edition: |
Revised ed. |
| Description: |
Kirby shows how the American public s perceptions of the South have been influenced, even controlled, by the media. He surveys major movies, radio and television shows, plays, popular histories, and music from the turn of the century through the 1980s and documents a progression in the national image of the South." |
| Synopsis: |
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 South ingenuity of Jimmy Carter and Ted Turner; and from the regressive back-roads of television s "The Dukes of Hazzard" to the complex reconciliation found in Alice Walker s and Steven Spielberg s "The Color Purple."" |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, black and white |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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