
The Possible South : Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality.
Title:
The Possible South : Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality.
Author:
Brasell, R. Bruce.
ISBN:
9781496804129
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- The Possible South -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction-Southern Discourse, Mediated Distinctiveness, and the Devaluation of the Audiovisual -- Part I: Biraciality and Southern Discourse -- Chapter One-"Experience our past as part of your future": Biraciality and Tell About the South, Cultural Citizenship, and Bi-Civic Heritage -- Chapter Two-"God-created difference": Racial Performance, Regional Exceptionalism, and broken/ground -- Part II: Biracial Denial One-Miscegenation -- Chapter Three-"In slave time you know everything happened": The Racial Closet, Southeastern Expatriate Road Film, and Family Name -- Chapter Four-Praying Pigs and Wooden Peg Legs: Racial Poaching, Redemptive Ethnography, and 1970s Southeastern Documentaries -- Part III: Biracial Denial Two-Existence of Other Races and Ethnicities -- Chapter Five-"Wonder if our culture will survive": Racial In-Betweenness, Cultural Preservation, and the Sound of Ethnicity in Mosquitoes and High Water, Living in America, and Nuestra Communidad -- Chapter Six-"So that we have our own color": Racial Negotiation, Textual Posturing, and Mississippi Triangle -- Chapter Seven-"Too much bad blood": Racial Legitimacy, Representational Strategies, and Real Indian -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
How documentary film explodes common discourses of a South divided only by black and white.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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