MEDIA-MADE DIXIE: The South in the American Imagination

Kirby, Jack Temple

ISBN 10: 0807103756 / ISBN 13: 9780807103753

Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1978

About this Item

First edition, hardcover. Gold cloth with red/black lettering on the spine. xviii,203 pages. Table of Contents. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Preface. Notes. Essay on Sources. Index. Very good with head of spine lightly pushed and foxing to top edge of text block, in a very good, unclipped dust jacket with light wear to edges and faint crease on rear panel. Mylar cover on jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To the __-some folks from the old country Jack Kirby.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MEDIA-MADE DIXIE: The South in the American Imagination
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807103756
• ISBN 13: 9780807103753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In "Media-Made Dixie" Jack Kirby shows how the American public s perceptions of the South have been influenced, even controlled, by the mass communications media. In this newly updated edition, Kirby surveys major movies, radio and television shows, plays, popular histories, and music from the turn of the century through the 1980s. He documents a progression in the national image of the South from the cracker wasteland of Erskine Caldwell s "God s Little Acre" to the antebellum wonderland of Hollywood s Shirley Temple- Bojangles Robinson musicals; from William Styron s searching account of the Old South in "Confessions of Nat Turner" to the New South ingenuity of Jimmy Carter and Ted Turner; and from the regressive back-roads of television s "The Dukes of Hazzard" to the complex reconciliation found in Alice Walker s and Steven Spielberg s "The Color Purple.""

Review

"Anybody who is even faintly curious about the South should be grateful for Kirby's lively, unpretentious little work. . . . No major ingredient of the fictive-fantasy South is left unscrutinized."--"Time Magazine"

"Entertaining and provocative."--"Mid-America"

Anybody who is even faintly curious about the South should be grateful for Kirby's lively, unpretentious little work. . . . No major ingredient of the fictive-fantasy South is left unscrutinized.--"Time Magazine"

Entertaining and provocative.--"Mid-America"