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The South on Screen Ser.: Unwhite : Appalachia, Race, and Film by Meredith McCarroll (2018, Trade Paperback)
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UNWHITE: APPALACHIA, RACE, AND FILM (THE SOUTH ON SCREEN SER.) By Meredith Mccarroll & Matthew Bernstein & R. Palmer **BRAND NEW**.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN-100820353620
ISBN-139780820353623
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038791129
Product Key Features
Number of Pages172 Pages
Publication NameUnwhite : Appalachia, Race, and Film
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFilm / General, Media Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Film / History & Criticism, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
AuthorMeredith Mccarroll
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science, History
SeriesThe South on Screen Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-003948
Reviews[McCarroll's] study of Appalachian film highlights the multiplicity of the region and refuses the monolithic and prescriptive tendencies of un-Appalachian critics., Responding directly to the reductive cultural stereotyping of twentieth-century Appalachia, Meredith McCarroll's Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film catalogues, analyzes, and historicizes the cinematic figures that invent Appalachia for the twentieth and twenty-first century. Beyond offering a genre study of films about Appalachia, Unwhite points to the centrality of Appalachian types for shaping US economic and political processes.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.4308991607
SynopsisAppalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as "pure white stock" and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith McCarroll's Unwhite analyzes the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what "rednecks" and "white trash" are, McCarroll argues, we rely on the continued use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other. Further, we continue to depend upon the existence of the region of Appalachia as a cultural construct. As a consequence, Appalachia has long been represented in the collective cultural history as the lowest, the poorest, the most ignorant, and the most laughable community. McCarroll complicates this understanding by asserting that white privilege remains intact while Appalachia is othered through reliance on recognizable nonwhite cinematic stereotypes. Unwhite demonstrates how typical characterizations of Appalachian people serve as foils to set off and define the "whiteness" of the non-Appalachian southerners. In this dynamic, Appalachian characters become the racial other. Analyzing the representation of the people of Appalachia in films such as Deliverance , Cold Mountain , Medium Cool , Norma Rae , Cape Fear , The Killing Season , and Winter's Bone through the critical lens of race and specifically whiteness, McCarroll offers a reshaping of the understanding of the relationship between racial and regional identities., Analyses the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what ""rednecks"" are, Meredith McCarroll argues, we rely on the use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other., Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as ?pure white stock? and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith McCarroll's Unwhite analyzes the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what ?rednecks? and ?white trash? are, McCarroll argues, we rely on the continued use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other. Further, we continue to depend upon the existence of the region of Appalachia as a cultural construct. As a consequence, Appalachia has long been represented in the collective cultural history as the lowest, the poorest, the most ignorant, and the most laughable community. McCarroll complicates this understanding by asserting that white privilege remains intact while Appalachia is othered through reliance on recognizable nonwhite cinematic stereotypes. Unwhite demonstrates how typical characterizations of Appalachian people serve as foils to set off and define the ?whiteness? of the non-Appalachian southerners. In this dynamic, Appalachian characters become the racial other. Analyzing the representation of the people of Appalachia in films such as Deliverance , Cold Mountain , Medium Cool , Norma Rae , Cape Fear , The Killing Season , and Winter's Bone through the critical lens of race and specifically whiteness, McCarroll offers a reshaping of the understanding of the relationship between racial and regional identities.
LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.M67M33 2018
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