Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South

by John C. Inscoe

Book Overview

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and meaningful depictions of Appalachia's people. Surveying some two dozen films and the literary and historical sources from which they were adapted, John C. Inscoe argues that in the American imagination Appalachia has long represented far more than deprived and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469660148
• ISBN13: 9781469660141
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"