Southerners on Film
Southerners on Film

Author: Andrew B. Leiter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 078648702X

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The representation of Southerners on film has been a topic of enduring interest and debate among scholars of both film and Southern studies. These 15 essays examine the problem of Southern identity in film since the civil rights era. Fresh insights are provided on such familiar topics as the redneck image, transitions to modernity and the prevalence of the Southern gothic. Other essays reflect the reinvigorated and expanding field of new Southern studies and topics include the transnational South, the intersection of ethnicity and environment and the cultural significance of Southern identity outside the South.

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans

Author: Vicki Mayer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0520967178

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such a policy? Why would citizens accept the policy’s uncomfortable effects on their economy and culture? Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans addresses these questions through a study of the local and everyday experiences of the film economy in New Orleans, Louisiana—a city that has twice pursued the goal of becoming a movie production capital. From the silent era to today’s Hollywood South, Vicki Mayer explains that the aura of a film economy is inseparable from a prevailing sense of home, even as it changes that place irrevocably.

Contemporary Tourism
Contemporary Tourism

Author: Chris Cooper

Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1915097185

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Now in its fifth edition, Contemporary Tourism: an international approach presents a new and refreshing approach to the study of tourism, looking at the far reaching effects that the COVID pandemic has had on the industry and how it has been forced to change (or not) subsequently.

Louisiana's Oil Heritage
Louisiana's Oil Heritage

Author: Tonja Koob Marking

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738594075

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Scott Heywood discovered oil in Jennings on September 21, 1901, starting a new industry for Louisiana. From the heart of Acadiana, oil fever spread north to Caddo and Pine Island, south to Hackberry and Cameron, east to Barataria and Lafourche, and into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil industry created a worker class in Louisiana that had not previously existed. Towns, complete with schools, churches, and grocery stores, developed in oil fields; in fact, cabins with clothes hanging on the line to dry were adjacent to derricks and open oil pits. Today, families proudly recount the number of their generations that have worked in the "oil patch," and workers continue to contribute to a current crude oil production of nearly 200,000 barrels per day. The legacy of Louisiana's first oil fields is evident in towns like Jennings, Evangeline, Oil City, Morgan City, Lake Charles, and Cameron, and the history of that once nascent industry is a permanent part of the culture of Louisiana.

Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest
Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest

Author: John Logan Allen

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780486269146

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The author traces how Lewis and Clark's epic journey of 1804–06 and their charting of the American Northwest dramatically revised generally held concepts of the area's geography. With 45 maps. "Splendidly researched and highly readable" — Donald Jackson, editor of the Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Images of the Plains
Images of the Plains

Author: Brian W. Blouet

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780803208391

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Sixteen papers by foremost American, Canadian, and English historical geographers examine the sources of Imagery of the American and Canadian Great Plains, the processes of image formation, and the behavioral implications of various kinds of images. The papers deal with exploratory images of the Plains, resource evaluation in the prefrontier West, governmental appraisal of the western frontier, real and imagined climatic hazards, the desert and garden myths, and adaptations to reality.

Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge

Author: Sylvia Frank Rodrigue

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738554068

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In 1699, on a high bluff along the Mississippi River, explorer Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, found the fabled "Red Stick," a post that marked the line between two Native American nations and gave Baton Rouge, Louisiana, its name. This book chronicles 150 years of the daily activities of Baton Rouge's residents through images of the city's growth and development; life during the Civil War, floods, hurricanes, and economic depressions; and people working, playing, and celebrating.

Portraits of Conflict
Portraits of Conflict

Author: Bobby Leon Roberts

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1557282609

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This largest volume yet in the University of Arkansas Press's award-winning series on the Civil War deepens our understanding of the nation's costliest human conflict. It tells the stories of the ordinary soldierstheir heroism and fear, the boredom and the miseryin the midst of war. - Publisher.

The Civil War Experience
The Civil War Experience

Author: Matthew John Doeden

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2014-11-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1491429453

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Experience the first shot fired and the Battle of Bull Run, fight to survive at Gettysburg, hide a group of run away slaves along the underground railroad. The Civil War Experience brings you to history. Choose from 51 possible endings while exploring one of the most important eras of American history.

THE Creole Book
THE Creole Book

Author: Janet Ravare Colson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-04-05

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1105647021

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This publication traces the history, accomplishments and milestones of the Creole Center located at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. THE Creole Book presents a beginning look at some of the Center's work and accomplishments. In its thirteen plus years of existence, the Center has served not only the Creoles in Louisiana, but the national Creole public, scholars, and anyone interested in the culture from around the world. It has paved the way for the long sought after recognition of the unique and deserving Louisiana Creole culture. The Center has also become the national Creole voice. To put it bluntly, Creoles can now be comfortable in declaring their culture and heritage. It is the author's belief that this would not be possible without the work that the Creole Center has done.