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Cameras on display at Movie World in Oberhausen, Germany — (Mahdi Abdulrazak / Flickr)

Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South—as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived experience, and a bitter legacy. Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliverance to Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen (2023, UGA Press), author and film critic B. W. Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era.

Beard talks with Walter Edgar about what the movies got right, and what stereotypes they created or perpetuate.

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307 episoder

#History #South Carolina #South Carolina Public Radio #Walter Edgar

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The South Never Plays Itself - a history of the Deep South on screen

Walter Edgar's Journal

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Innehåll tillhandahållet av South Carolina Public Radio. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av South Carolina Public Radio eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.

Cameras on display at Movie World in Oberhausen, Germany — (Mahdi Abdulrazak / Flickr)

Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South—as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived experience, and a bitter legacy. Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliverance to Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen (2023, UGA Press), author and film critic B. W. Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era.

Beard talks with Walter Edgar about what the movies got right, and what stereotypes they created or perpetuate.

… continue reading

307 episoder

#History #South Carolina #South Carolina Public Radio #Walter Edgar

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