{"product_id":"celluloid-south-hollywood-and-the-southern-myth-9781572332539","title":"Celluloid South: Hollywood And The Southern Myth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe “southern” – as much a Hollywood genre as the “western” – is the subject of \u003ci\u003eThe Celluloid South\u003c\/i\u003e. For decades the film industry, to provide profit-making entertainment, offered the public movies that neither raised difficult issues nor offended a majority of the ticket-buyers. As a result, Hollywood romanticized the south, particularly the antebellum era, in hundreds of films like \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGone With the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJezebel\u003c\/i\u003e. During the 1920’s and especially the Depression, the “moonlight and magnolia” romances increased to such an extent that Hollywood has been struggling since the late forties to rid films of the traditional images of the “southern.”\u003cp\u003eIn his exploration of the “southern,” Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr. examines the film plots and images – their social, literary, and historical origins, and their impact on the creation of a popular mythology of the south. The unrealistic but seemingly harmless characterizations of a planter society, and agricultural economy, and especially slavery have hindered the region’s self-assessment and warped the nation’s perspective on race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCampbell looks beyond the productions themselves, however, to advertising techniques and the reactions of the viewers and reviewers in his examination of the “southern,” its popularity and its decline, and its influence of the public’s conception of history, contemporary conditions, and black\/white relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Celluloid South\u003c\/i\u003e is not a study of film per se, but of film as a reflection of society and the ramifications inherent in popular entertainment. Readers interested in southern history, popular culture, or cinema studies, as well as movie fans, will find \u003ci\u003eThe Celluloid South\u003c\/i\u003e a fascinating look at Hollywood’s development of the southern myth. Thirty-one film stills illustrate the text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188720394583,"sku":"9781572332539","price":20.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/celluloid-south-hollywood-and-the-southern-myth-9781572332539","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}