American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary

Index

357 Index Abel, Michael, 114 Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 46 Addams Family, The (television series), 229 Adventures of Frontier Fremont, The, 254 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 65, 334n15 Africa, West, 259–60, 321, 333n14 African Americans: as actors, 5, 124, 303–4, 316n47; and binaries in culture, 317–20; on chain gangs (see chain gang); and constructions of female social circles, 11, 55, 58; in Daughters of the Dust, 259–61; dehumanized by slavery, 6, 33, 54, 67, 70; depicted as “Mammys” (see Mammy); depicted as rapists, 10, 42, 60; depicted as “Uncle Toms” (see Uncle Tom); emancipation of (see emancipation, of African Americans); exploited by cinema, 6, 18, 29, 33, 44–45, 341; families of, 9–10, 39, 182, 238–39; homoerotic relationships of, 300, 304, 307, 311; iconography of, 321; as Mardi Gras Indians, 255, 271, 272n14; minstrelsy of (see minstrelsy); organized violence against, 32, 43, 180, 188, 238, 300 (see also lynching; torture); passing of (see passing); primitivism of (see primitivism); in racial activism, 15, 89, 152–54, 164; in racial constructions of the South, 8, 30–31, 38–39, 65–66, 82, 285, 342; relationships of, with Native Americans, 255, 258–59, 260–61 (see also Native Americans). See also race; segregation African culture, 233–34, 237, 318– 19, 321 After the Storm (2006), 282 aids, 300, 311, 339, 347; and hiv, 265 Alabama Christian Movement, 179 alcoholism, 113, 262, 265 Alexander, Bobby C., 319 Alexie, Sherman, 254, 258, 261, 275 alienation, 317, 321 All the King’s Men (1949), 8, 108–9 All the Real Girls (2003), 12, 293, 303 Allain, Stephanie, 327 Allen, William Rodney, 335n34 Altman, Rick, 295–98 American Chain Gang (1999), 97, 101n52 American Dilemma, An (1940), 113–15 American Indian Film Festival, 262 358 Index American Indians. See Native Americans American Mercury (magazine), 126 American Silent Film (Everson), 27, 45 Amin, Idi, 233, 238, 240, 249n47 Anatomy of a Murder (1959), 204, 215n25, 332n2 Anderson, Benedict, 5, 22n18 Angel Heart (1987), 7 Apache, 256, 270n5; Geronimo, 256, 270n19. See also Native Americans Arapaho, 261. See also Native Americans Armstrong, Julie Buckner, 182, 192 At the River I Stand (1993), 12 Atlanta, development history of, 222, 245n15 Auerbach, Nina, 339–40 Auslander, Mark, 341, 349 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), 10 Avenging a Crime (1904), 32 Baby Doll (1956), 9, 12 backwardness, constructions of, 81– 82, 94, 96 Baez, Joan, 183, 192n10 Baker, Ella, 203 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 295; concept of chronotype by, 17, 294, 298–99, 303 Baldwin, James, 212 Ball, Alan, 337–38, 340 Ballast (2008), 12 Bambara, Toni Cade, 243, 245n13 Bamboozled (2000), 332n4, 335n29 Barthelme, Donald, 229, 243 Barthes, Roland, 225 Battle, The (1911), 36 Battle of Gettysburg, The (1913), 34 Battle of Shiloh, The (1913), 34 Bear Creek (in production), 343 Beauty Shop (2005), 11 Beguiled (1971), 7 Berg, Charles Merrell, 332n2 Berman, Marshall, 248n37 Berry, Halle, 325 Bersani, Leo, 340, 348 Bertagnoli, Lisa, 53–54, 57, 76n5; Scarlett’s Rules, 53, 76n5 Beyond the Melting Pot (Glazer and Moynihan), 168–70 Bhabha, Homi K., 5, 22n19 Big Chill, The (1983), 195 Big Lebowski, The (1998), 329 binaries, 156, 282; of economy, 161; of music, 319–20; of race, 152, 165, 317–18, 324; regional, 16; of religion, 322 Birmingham Children’s Crusade, 180 Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 15, 179, 181, 183–84, 192n12 Birth of a Nation, The (1915), 5, 6, 13, 33–34, 123; depictions of Civil War in, 27–28, 36, 47n2; influence of, on cinema, 27–28, 44– 45, 47n2, 60, 62, 330; presence of kkk in, 6, 41, 330, 335n34; racial exploitation in, 41; sociopolitical fears of, 5–6, 42, 49n25; white womanhood in, 38–39, 42–43, 48n16, 60, 62 Bitzer, G. W., 31, 48n16 Black Mama, White Mama (1972), 334n23 Black Masculinity and the U.S. South (Richardson), 10 Black Snake Moan (2006), 12, 18, 23n36; blues in, 317, 322, 325–26, 328, 331; as southern mythology, 295; use of stereotypes in, 327–30 “Black Snake Moan #1” (Blind Lemon Jefferson, 1927), 329 blackface, 6, 29, 162, 330; in The Birth of a Nation, 42; as element of minstrelsy (see minstrelsy); of leading characters, 35, 38 blaxploitation film, 10, 126, 334 blues music, 183, 222, 329; on Broadway, 6; codifying race Index 359 through, 234, 241, 318, 326–28; expressing community through, 317, 319–20, 325–26, 331; as religious experience, 18, 318...