Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema

by Scott Von Doviak

While the pimps and players of blaxploitation movies dominated inner-city theaters, good old boys with muscle under their hoods and moonshine in their trunks roared onto drive-in screens throughout rural America. The popularity of these "hick flicks" grew throughout the '70s, and they attained mass acceptance with the 1977 release of Smokey and the Bandit. It marked the heyday of these regional favorites, but within a few short years, changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786419970
• ISBN13: 9780786419975
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher