Small-Screen Souths

Download or read book Small-Screen Souths written by Lisa Hinrichsen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sixteen essays that capitalize on recent innovations in cultural studies, media studies, and American studies, Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television assesses a diverse televisual archive to demonstrate how television studies can offer new critical possibilities for analyzing the complex histories of gender, sexuality, class, and race in the U.S. South. Small-Screen Souths analyzes historical and current depictions of the South and the way such depictions have influenced popular conceptions of the region.