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Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies,New
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Product DescriptionThe stereotypical hillbilly figure in popular culture provokes a range of responses, from bemused affection for Ma and Pa Kettle to outright fear of the mountain men in Deliverance. In Hillbillyland, J. W. Williamson investigates why hillbilly images are so pervasive in our culture and what purposes they serve. He has mined more than 800 movies, from early nickelodeon onereelers to contemporary films such as Thelma and Louise and Raising Arizona, for representations of hillbillies in their recurring roles as symbolic 'cultural others.' Williamson's hillbillies live not only in the hills of the South but anywhere on the rough edge of society. And they are not just men; women can be hillbillies, too. According to Williamson, mainstream America responds to hillbillies because they embody our fears and hopes and a romantic vision of the past. They are clowns, children, free spirits, or wild people through whom we live vicariously while being reassured about our own standing in society.ReviewWilliamson reminds us that the themes in the hillbilly movies are versions of universals; and because the movies mirror, create, and are culture, the symbols and myths they employ are not just the stuff of literature or literary criticism but the stuff of life. As Pogo used to say, 'We have met the subtext, and she is us.'Henry D. Shapiro, author of Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American ConsciousnessAbout the AuthorJ. W. Williamson is professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and editor of Appalachian Journal. He is author of Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films and coeditor of Interviewing Appalachia.
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