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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-13
9780820323886
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113790285
Product Key Features
Author
Jack Kirby
Publication Name
Media-Made Dixie: the South in the American Imagination
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
1986
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jack Kirby
Topic
Local History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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