Small-screen Souths : region, identity, and the cultural politics of television / edited by Lisa Hinrichsen, Gina Caison, and Stephanie Rountree.
| Other author | Hinrichsen, Lisa, 1978- editor. |
| Other author | Caison, Gina, 1980- editor. |
| Other author | Rountree, Stephanie, 1983- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [[2017] |
| Description | viii, 334 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Southern literary studies Southern literary studies. ^A17900 |
| Contents | Introduction: The Televisual South / Lisa Hinrichsen, Gina Caison, and Stephanie Rountree -- I. Politics and Indentity in the Televisual South. Midcentury Transition: Lost Boundaries, Passing, and Early Television / Robert Jackson -- Designing Women and Its Postsouthern, Postfeminist Legacy / Monica Carol Miller -- Birmingham Welcomes Ellen: Coming Out and Performing Audience / Bonnie Applebeet Cameron -- "I'm Gone with the Wind Fabulous": The Real Housewives of Atlanta and the New South / Casey Kayser and Ashli Dykes -- God Hates Fangs: True Blood, Black Queer Agency, and Appropriations of the History of Racial and Sexual Violence in the Deep South / Joanna Davis-McElligatt -- II. Caricatures, Commodities, and Catharsis in the Rural South. Anxious Engagements: Horton Foote and the South in Early Television / Robert W. Haynes -- Rural Comedy and the "Foreign" South / Sara K. Eskridge -- "Redneck Feng-Shui": Duck Dynasty, Paula Deen, and the Other Louisiana / Mary Ann Wilson -- White for the Harvest: Hicksploitation TV and the Colonial Model of Appalachian Exploitation / Jimmy Dean Smith -- Big Smo: Reality TV, Hick-Hop, and Southern Stereotypes / Leigh H. Edwards -- III. (Dis)Locating the South. "Welcome to the Fabled South": John Kneubuhl's global Southern Gothic, 1959-1966 / Stanley Orr -- The Truth Is South There: The X-Files' Transregional Souths / Eric Gary Anderson -- Miami in Miami Vice: Regional Ambiguity and Permeable Borders in the U.S. South / Tatiana McInnis -- The Walking Dead's Postsouthern Crypts / Matthew Dischinger -- Football, the South, and the Spatiality of Television / Taylor Hagood -- Solid South, Fluid Souths: The Wire, Treme, and David Simon's Urbanism / Jennie Lightweis-Goff. |
| Abstract | "As the first collection dedicated to the relationship between television and the U.S. South, Small-Screen Souths addresses the growing interest in how mass culture represents the region and influences popular perceptions of it. In sixteen essays divided into three thematic sections, scholars of southern culture analyze representations of the South in a variety of television shows spanning the history of the medium, from classic network programs such as The Andy Griffith Show and Designing Women to some of today's popular franchises like Duck Dynasty and The Walking Dead. The first section, 'Politics and Identity in the Televisual South,' focuses on how television constructs understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and class, often adapting to changing configurations of community and identity. The next section, 'Caricatures, Commodities, and Catharsis in the Rural South,' examines the tension between depictions of southern rural communities and assumptions about abject whiteness, particularly conceptions of poverty and profitized culture. The concluding section, '(Dis)Locating the South,' considers the influence of postcolonialism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism in understanding television featuring the region. Throughout, the essays investigate the profuse, often contradictory ways that the U.S. South has been represented on television, seeking to expand and pluralize myopic perspectives of the region. By analyzing depictions of the South from the classical network era to the contemporary post-broadcast age, Small-Screen Souths offers a broad historical scope and a multiplicity of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on what it means to see the South from the television screen." -- From publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2017005932 |
| ISBN | 9780807167144 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0807167142 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | mobi |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1992.8 .S58 S63 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |