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Reconstructing violence the southern rape complex in film and literature

Title
Reconstructing violence [electronic resource] : the southern rape complex in film and literature / Deborah E. Barker.
Author
Barker, Deborah, 1956-
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]

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Description
1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations.
Series Statement
Southern literary studies
Uniform Title
Reconstructing violence (Online)
Alternative Title
Reconstructing violence (Online)
Subject
  • Violence in motion pictures
  • Violence in literature
  • Race relations in motion pictures
  • Race relations in literature
  • Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures
  • Power (Social sciences) in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
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Contents
Confederate abjection in D. W. Griffith's early Civil War films and Thomas Dixon's Clansman (1905) -- Taking the South out of the southern rape complex in The Story of Temple Drake (1933) -- Believing in Mammy: Sanctuary (1961), the movie -- The power of the false in Touch of Evil (1958) -- "A man like that doesn't deserve civil rights": systemic violence in Cape Fear (1962) -- "Blind spots": the visual logic and historical context of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) -- Coda: A Time to Kill (1996) and post-civil rights variations on the southern rape complex.
LCCN
2015008665
OCLC
ssj0001580720
Author
Barker, Deborah, 1956-
Title
Reconstructing violence [electronic resource] : the southern rape complex in film and literature / Deborah E. Barker.
Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Series
Southern literary studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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