Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Southern Imaginary -- I. Rereading the Hollywood South -- The Celluloid War before The Birth: Race and History in Early American Film -- Mammy's "Mules" and the Rules of Marriage -- Bodies and Expectations: Chain Gang Discipline -- The Postwar Cinematic South: Realism and the Politics of Liberal Consensus -- A "Professional Southerner" in the Hollywood Studio System: Lamar Trotti at Work, 1925-1952 -- II. Viewing the Civil Rights South -- Black Passing and White Pluralism: Imitation of Life in the Civil Rights Struggle -- Remembering Birmingham Sunday: Spike Lee's 4 Little Girls -- Exploitation Movies and the Freedom Struggle of the 1960s -- III. Crossing Borders -- Mapping out a Postsouthern Cinema: Three Contemporary Films -- The Native Screen: American Indians in Contemporary Southern Film -- The City That Déjà Vu Forgot: Memory, Mapping, and the Americanization of New Orleans -- Humid Time: Independent Film, Gay Sexualities, and Southernscapes -- Papa Legba and the Liminal Spaces of the Blues: Roots Music in Deep South Film -- Revamping the South: Thoughts on Labor, Relationality, and Southern Representation -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.