Table of Contents

Introduction At the Crossroads
Chapter 1. This Southern Advent
Chapter 2. Migrant Media
Chapter 3. The Silver Dream Accumulated
Chapter 4. And the War Came
Chapter 5. A Theater of Violence
Chapter 6. The Matter of Treatment
Chapter 7. Pruning Knife Busy

Conclusion Scattering into Every Crossroad
Index

About the Author

Robert Jackson is an James G. Watson Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, where he is also affiliated with programs in Film Studies and African American Studies. Specializing in cultural studies of the modern United States, he works at the intersection of literature, film and media studies, and social history. Among his prior publications is Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence,
Innovation (2005).

Reviews

"An extremely fascinating work on southern cinema that extends from actors, literary figures, and industry workers who influenced popular representations of the South to filmmakers who built homes emulating southern mansions to actors who brought their own interpretations of the South to the screen. Jackson intricately interweaves the contributions of African American cinema into this discussion, making it integral to rather than tangential to this engaging,
thoughtful, and well researched examination of the South's influence on Hollywood."-- Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
"Covering both the famous and the obscure, Jackson's exciting and often surprising volume shows how integral southern topics and southern people were to filmmaking through the 1940s." --Ted Ownby, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi