Pete Daniel
In her subtle readings of 1950s and 1960s films, Allison Graham reveals in Framing the South how Hollywood has portrayed and manipulated southerners. Whether discussing whiteness, racial boundaries, Elvis Presley movies, African Americans, or poor whites, Graham has a keen analytical eye for class and gender. Framing the South explains Hollywood's perplexing use of southern stereotypes and thus makes a major contribution to post-World War II cultural history.
Brian Ward
By offering a compelling analysis of the films and television programs that dealt -- explicitly and implicitly -- with the turbulent racial situation in the postwar South, Allison Graham illuminates the process by which competing narratives of the region's civil rights convulsions have become inscribed in national and regional consciousness. An innovative, engaging and deeply insightful book, Framing the South should find an appreciative audience among those interested in the relationship between media, culture, and the African American freedom struggle.
Brian WardUniversity of Florida, author of Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations
Gregory A. Waller
An exceptionally entertaining study, Framing the South is ambitious in its coverage of both film and television. Graham effectively situates this material in terms of the civil rights struggle and the public discourse about American racism. This is a substantial work of scholarship covering a crucial aspect of American politics and culture in the twentieth century.
Gregory A. WallerUniversity of Kentucky, author of Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930
Gregory A. WallerUniversity of Kentucky
An exceptionally entertaining study, Framing the South is ambitious in its coverage of both film and television. Graham effectively situates this material in terms of the civil rights struggle and the public discourse about American racism. This is a substantial work of scholarship covering a crucial aspect of American politics and culture in the twentieth century.
Gregory A. WallerUniversity of Kentucky, author of Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930
From the Publisher
In her subtle readings of 1950s and 1960s films, Allison Graham reveals in Framing the South how Hollywood has portrayed and manipulated southerners. Whether discussing whiteness, racial boundaries, Elvis Presley movies, African Americans, or poor whites, Graham has a keen analytical eye for class and gender. Framing the South explains Hollywood's perplexing use of southern stereotypes and thus makes a major contribution to post-World War II cultural history.—Pete Daniel, Curator of the Division of the History of Technology, National Museum of American History
By offering a compelling analysis of the films and television programs that dealt—explicitly and implicitly—with the turbulent racial situation in the postwar South, Allison Graham illuminates the process by which competing narratives of the region's civil rights convulsions have become inscribed in national and regional consciousness. An innovative, engaging and deeply insightful book, Framing the South should find an appreciative audience among those interested in the relationship between media, culture, and the African American freedom struggle.—Brian WardUniversity of Florida, author of Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations
An exceptionally entertaining study, Framing the South is ambitious in its coverage of both film and television. Graham effectively situates this material in terms of the civil rights struggle and the public discourse about American racism. This is a substantial work of scholarship covering a crucial aspect of American politics and culture in the twentieth century.—Gregory A. WallerUniversity of Kentucky, author of Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930
Brian WardUniversity of Florida
By offering a compelling analysis of the films and television programs that dealt—explicitly and implicitly—with the turbulent racial situation in the postwar South, Allison Graham illuminates the process by which competing narratives of the region's civil rights convulsions have become inscribed in national and regional consciousness. An innovative, engaging and deeply insightful book, Framing the South should find an appreciative audience among those interested in the relationship between media, culture, and the African American freedom struggle.