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What the Movies Did to the Mountains and what the Mountains Did to the Movies
出版University of North Carolina Press, 1995
主題Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / History & CriticismSocial Science / Folklore & MythologySocial Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN08078219509780807821954
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uItZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The stereotypical hillbilly figure in popular culture provokes a range of responses, from bemused affection for Ma and Pa Kettle to outright fear of the mountain men in Deliverance. In Hillbillyland, J. W. Williamson investigates why hillbilly images are so pervasive in our culture and what purposes they serve. He has mined more than 800 movies, from early nickelodeon one-reelers to contemporary films such as Thelma and Louise and Raising Arizona, for representations of hillbillies in their recurring roles as symbolic 'cultural others.' Williamson's hillbillies live not only in the hills of the South but anywhere on the rough edge of society. And they are not just men; women can be hillbillies, too. According to Williamson, mainstream America responds to hillbillies because they embody our fears and hopes and a romantic vision of the past. They are clowns, children, free spirits, or wild people through whom we live vicariously while being reassured about our own standing in society.