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A Companion to Grapes of Wrath

Literature & Fiction

French, Warren

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

Filmguide to The grapes of wrath

Indiana

A Companion to Grapes of Wrath: 2

Viking Adult

Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
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J. D. Salinger, Revisited (United States Authors Series)

Teen & Young Adult

Twayne Publishers

Physical description; 124 pages. Notes; This limited edition is 890 of 1,000 printed copies. Subject; French drama - 20th century.

The South and Film

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Will the South rise again--this time cinematically? The answer to this question is among the subjects considered in this collection of essays. Though the South has provided the setting for outstanding and controversial films such as Gone With the Wind and The Birth of a Nation, these did not foster a genre of imitative films, and there never was a "Southern" as there was a "Western." This may have changed, however, in 1969-70 with the appearance of a film that suggested a set of stereotypes particularly congenial to films with southern settings.
 In Easy Rider, the characters departed not for the West on horseback but for the South on motorcycles, carrying with them the seeds of their own destruction, and since then the only credible films about the West have been parodies. Following Easy Rider, there have been several "gasoline operas," and the South has been prominently featured in them. These attempts to create a Southern film genre and the fascinating question of how long it can be maintained is the focus of four of the essays in this collection.
 In addition, there are provocative reconsiderations of the Southern film classics Gone With the Wind, The Birth of a Nation, Jezebel, and The Southerner. Another group of essays looks at the "vision" of the South projected in the works of three renowned auteurs--John Ford, Robert Altman, and Martin Ritt. Any discussions about the South and film would be incomplete without a consideration of the importance of female characters and the relation of film to the works of William Faulkner, and these are the subjects of two groups of essays. The final section of essays focuses on the problems of capturing on film the unique qualities of a region and on the perils and pleasures of the search for authenticity when shooting in regional locations. These essays, which introduce a vast subject, were included in the Spring/Summer 1981 issue of The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South.

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