Movie-Made Appalachia
Movie-Made Appalachia 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…
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Movie-Made Appalachia
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. Inscoe argues that in the American imagination Appalachia has long represented far more than deprived and depraved hillbillies. Surveying some two dozen films and the literary and historical sources from which they were adapted, John C.
In either case, they deserve more credit than they have received for creating sympathetic and often complex characters who interact within families, households, and communities amidst a wide array of historical contingencies. Rather, the films he highlights serve as effective conduits into the region's past, some grounded firmly in documented realities and life stories, others only loosely so. They provide credible and