The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff's Journey Through the South on Screen

Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to...
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Author: Ben Beard
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The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff's Journey Through the South on Screen by Beard, Ben

The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff's Journey Through the South on Screen

Dhs. 166.82

The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff's Journey Through the South on Screen

Dhs. 166.82
Author: Ben Beard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South--as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived experience and a bitter legacy. Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliverance to Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself, author and film critic B. W. Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era, from President Wilson to President Trump, from musical to comedy to horror to crime to melodrama. Beard's idiosyncratic narrative--part cultural history, part film criticism, part memoir--journeys through genres and eras, issues and regions, smash blockbusters and microbudget indies to explore America's past and troubled present, seen through Hollywood's distorting lens. Opinionated, obsessive, sweeping, often combative, sometimes funny--a wild narrative tumble into culture both high and low--Beard attempts to answer the haunting question: what do movies know about the South that we don't?

Author: Ben Beard
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 12/15/2020
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781588384010


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2020
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2020
Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 86

About the Author
BEN BEARD is a writer and librarian. He is the co-author of This Day in Civil Rights History and the author of Muhammad Ali: The Greatest and King Midas in Reverse. In the 2000s, Beard reviewed movies and wrote features for InSite Magazine, King Kudzu, and Filmmonthly.com, where he also worked as an editor. Beard, a native of Georgia who spent his formative years in the Florida Panhandle and Alabama, currently lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.

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