Personal In My Memory The South In Popular Film By Some Of Our Favorite Writers And Filmmakers

Download or read book "Personal in My Memory": The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers written by Godfrey Cheshire and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal in My Memory" The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers with an introduction by Godfrey Cheshire Alice Walker, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, Joe Flora, Kenneth Turan, Elizabeth Spencer, and Andrew Garrison tell how their favorite Southern films marked them indelibly. "We have two imaginary kingdoms. One, 'the South,' exists primarily in song, oral traditions and folkways, native art and literature. The other, 'Hollywood,' creates mass-produced audiovisual entertainments for American and world audiences, and develops its own mythology."