- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Southern literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Reconstructing violence (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Reconstructing violence (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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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