{"product_id":"media-made-dixie-jack-temple-kirby-9780820323886","title":"Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination","description":"In \u003ci\u003eMedia-Made Dixie\u003c\/i\u003e Jack Kirby shows how the American public's perceptions of the South have been influenced, even controlled, by the mass communications media. In this newly updated edition, Kirby surveys major movies, radio and television shows, plays, popular histories, and music from the turn of the century through the 1980s. He documents a progression in the national image of the South from the cracker wasteland of Erskine Caldwell's \u003ci\u003eGod's Little Acre\u003c\/i\u003e to the antebellum wonderland of Hollywood's Shirley Temple-\"Bojangles\" Robinson musicals; from William Styron's searching account of the Old South in \u003ci\u003eConfessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e to the New South ingenuity of Jimmy Carter and Ted Turner; and from the regressive back-roads of television's \u003ci\u003eThe Dukes of Hazzard\u003c\/i\u003e to the complex reconciliation found in Alice Walker's and Steven Spielberg's \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jack Temple Kirby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820323888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820323886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.22w x 0.64d","brand":"Jack Temple Kirby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120341184767,"sku":"9780820323886","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a34e69d-bd6d-4545-bb6a-6f22404c9168.jpg?v=1687413798","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/media-made-dixie-jack-temple-kirby-9780820323886","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}