{"product_id":"media-made-dixie-the-south-in-the-american-imagination-paperback","title":"Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Temple Kirby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMedia-Made Dixie\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGod's Little Acre\u003c\/i\u003e to the antebellum wonderland of Hollywood's Shirley Temple-\"Bojangles\" Robinson musicals; from William Styron's searching account of the Old South in \u003ci\u003eConfessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e to the New South ingenuity of Jimmy Carter and Ted Turner; and from the regressive back-roads of television's \u003ci\u003eThe Dukes of Hazzard\u003c\/i\u003e to the complex reconciliation found in Alice Walker's and Steven Spielberg's \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJACK TEMPLE KIRBY was the emeritus W. E. Smith Professor of American History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eWorking the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Countercultural South\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9.12 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 13, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757849149728,"sku":"9780820323886","price":45.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/292ccb86bb27fde7ac19e938649abf59.webp?v=1780113085","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/media-made-dixie-the-south-in-the-american-imagination-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}