Hillbillyland

What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies

By: J. W. Williamson

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Paperback | 30 June 1995

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340 Pages

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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.

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Bold, adept, and often shrewd. . . . Rarely has so much rich food for thought been served with such panache."Journal of Southern History" A complex, entertaining, and insightful book."Journal of American History" "Bold, adept, and often shrewd. . . . Rarely has so much rich food for thought been served with such panache."Journal of Southern History"" For this splendid book Williamson should be given some kind of prize. . . . It is that good."Journal of American Culture" This book is highly likely to become a work as enduring as its popular subject."Southern Cultures" "A complex, entertaining, and insightful book."Journal of American History"" Convincing and well documented."Choice"

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