[November 12, 1999]

ENGLISH 3220:

Films of the American South

--Robert W. Hill

Bibliography-in-Progress

Film (for additional information, see http://www.imdb.com:

All the King’s Men. Dir. Robert Rossen. Writ. Robert Penn Warren. Perf. Broderick Crawford, John Ireland. 1949. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0041113.

The Apostle. Dir. Robert Duvall. Writ. Robert Duvall. Perf. Robert Duvall, Farrah Fawcett, Miranda Richardson, June Carter Cash, Todd Allen, John Beasley, Billy Bob Thornton. 1997. 137m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118632.

Belizaire the Cajun. Dir. Glen Pitre. Writ. Glen Pitre. Perf. Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, Robert Duvall. 1986. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090710.

Beloved. Dir. Jonathan Demme. Writ. Toni Morrison. Perf. Oprah Winfrey, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover. 1998. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120603 .

The Birth of a Nation; Or The Clansman. [aka The Clansman = Los Angeles première title, 1915)]. Dir. D.W. Griffiths. Writ. Thomas F. Dixon, Jr., D.W. Griffth. Perf. Lillian Gish, John Ford, Elmo Lincoln. 1915. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0004972.

Captain Spanky's Show Boat. Dir. Edward L. Cahn. Writ. Hal Law, Robert F. McGowan. Perf. Robert Blake, Jackie Cooper, Darla Hood, George "Spanky" McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas. 1939. 11m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0031138.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Dir. Richard Brooks. Writ. Tennessee Williams. Perf. Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives. 1958. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0051459.

The Color Purple. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Writ. Alice Walker, Menno Mayjes. Perf. Whoopie Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover. 1985. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088939.

Conrack. Dir. Martin Ritt. Writ. Pat Conroy, Irving Ravetch. Perf. John Voight. 1974. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0071358.

Cool Hand Luke. Dir. Stuart Rosenberg. Perf. Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper. 1967. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0061512.

Crimes of the Heart. Dir. Bruce Beresford. Writ. Beth Henley. Perf. Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Tess Harper, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard. 1986. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090886.

Daughters of the Dust. Dir. Julie Dash. 1992. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0104057.

Deliverance. Dir. John Boorman. Writ. James Dickey, John Boorman. Perf. John Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronnie Cox, James Dickey. 1972. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068473.

The Dollmaker (TV). Dir. Daniel Petrie. Writ. Harriet Arnow, Susan Cooper, Hume Cronin. Perf. Jane Fonda, Jason Wild, Christine Ebersole, Ann Hearn, Levon Helm, Geraldine Page, Amanda Plummer, Studs Terkel, Sheb Wooley. 1984. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087160.

Driving Miss Daisy. Dir. Bruce Beresford. Writ. Alfred Uhry. Perf. Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd.. 1989. 99m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097239.

Eve’s Bayou. Dir. Kasi Lemmons. Perf. Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson, Diahann Carroll, Branford Marsalis. 1997. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119080.

A Face in the Crowd. Dir. Elia Kazan. Writ. Budd Schulberg. Perf. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Anthony Francioso, Lee Remick. 1957. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0050371.

The Flim Flam Man [aka One Born Every Minute]. Dir. Irvin Kershner. Writ. Guy Owen, William Rose. Perf. George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens. 1967. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0061678.

Forrest Gump. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Writ. Winston Groom, Eric Roth. Perf. Tom Hanks, Sissy Spacek, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise. 1994. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109830.

4 Little Girls I (Documentary). Dir. Spike Lee. Perf. Bill Baxley, Bill Cosby, Walter Cronkite, George Corley Wallace. 1997. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118540.

Fried Green Tomatoes. Dir. Jon Avnet. Writ. Fanny Flagg, Carol Sobieski. Perf. Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson. 1991. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101921.

Gettysburg. Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell. Writ. Michael Shaara, Ronald F. Maxwell. Perf. Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan, Patrick Gorman, Jeff Daniels, Sam Elliott, Martin Sheen. 1993. 261m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107007.

Ghosts of Mississippi. Dir. Rob Reiner. Writ. Lewis Colick. Perf. Alex Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopie Goldberg, Craig T. Nelson, William H. Macey, Darrell Evers, Yolanda King. 1996. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116410.

Gone with the Wind. Dir. Victor Fleming. Writ. Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard. Perf. Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen. 1939. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0031381.

Interview with a Vampire [aka Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles]. Dir. Neil Jordan. Writ. Anne Rice. Perf. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, Thandie Newton, Kirsten Dunst. 1994. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110148.

In the Heat of the Night. Dir. Norman Jewison. Writ. John Ball, Sterling Silliphant. Perf. Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, Warren Oates, Lee Grant. 1967. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0061811.

The Last Picture Show. Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. Writ. Peter Bogdanovich. Perf. Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Randy Quaid. 1971. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067328.

The Little Foxes. Dir. William Wyler. Writ. Alan Campbell, Arthur Kober. Perf. Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Dan Duryea, Teresa Wright. 1941. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0033836.

Lone Star. Dir. John Sayles. Writ. John Sayles. Perf. Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey, Elizabeth Peña, Miriam Colon. 1996. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116905.

The Long Walk Home. Dir. Richard Pearce. Writ. John Cork. Perf. Whoopie Goldberg, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames. 1990. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100046.

Matewan. Dir. John Sayles. Writ. John Sayles. Perf. Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, John Sayles. 1987. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093509.

The Member of the Wedding. Dir. Fred Zinnemann. Writ. Carson McCullers, Edna Anhalt. Perf. Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, 1952. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0044896.

Miss Evers' Boys [Documentary]. Dir. Joseph Sargent. Writ. Walter Berstein, David Feldshuh. Perf. Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Joe Morton, Craig Sheffer, Ossie Davis. E.G. Marshall, Larry Black. 1997. 118 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119679.

Mississippi Burning. Dir. Alan Parker. Writ. Chris Gerolmo. Perf. Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif. 1988. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095647.

Mississippi Masala. Dir. Mira Nair. Writ. Sooni Taraporevala. Perf. Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Charles Dutton. 1991. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0102456.

My Cousin Vinny. Dir. Jonathan Lynn. Writ. Dale Launer. Perf. Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei. 1992. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0104952.

Norma Rae. Dir. Martin Ritt. Writ. Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch. Perf. Sally Field, Beau Bridges. 1979. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079638.

Old Man. Dir. John Kent Harrison. Writ. Wiliam Faulkner, Horton Foote. Perf. Jeanne Tripplehorn, Arliss Howard. Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions (TV). 1997. 108m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119823.

Paper Moon. Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. Writ. Joe David Brown, Alvin Sargent. Perf. Ryan O'Neil, Tatum O'Neil, Madeline Kahn, Randy Quaid. 1973. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070510.

Places in the Heart. Dir. Robert Benton. Writ. Robert Benton. Perf. Sally Field, John Malkovich, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Danny Glover. 1984. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087921.

The Prodigal [aka The Southerner] (Musical). Dir. Harry A. Pollard. Writ. Bess Meredyth, Wells Root. Perf. Lawrence Tibbett, Hedd Hopper. 1931. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0022283.

Rambling Rose. Dir. Martha Coolidge. Writ. Calder Willingham. Perf. Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Head. 1991. 112m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0102753.

Reflections in a Golden Eye. Dir. John Huston. Writ. Gladys Hill, Chapman Mortimer. Perf. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris. 1967. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0062185.

Rich in Love. Dir. Bruce Beresford. Writ. Josephine Humphrey, Alfred Uhry. Perf. Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, Piper Laurie, Ethan Hawke. 1992. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105256.

Ruby in Paradise. Dir. Victor Nunez. Writ. Victor Nunez. Perf. Ashley Judd, Todd Field. 1993. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108000.

School Daze. Dir. Spike Lee. Writ. Spike Lee. Perf. Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis. 1988. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096054.

Sergeant York. Dir. Howard Hawkes. Writ. Harry Chandler, Abem Finkel. Perf. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, June Lockhart. 1941. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0034167.

Show Boat (Musical: "The Universal Super Talking Picture"). Dir. Harry A. Pollard. Writ. Edna Ferber, Charles Kenyon. Perf. Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Otis Harlan, Stepin Fetchit, Gertrude Howard. 1929. 147 m. (including prologue). http://us.imdb.com/Title?0020402.

Show Boat (Musical). Dir. James Whale. Writ. Edna Ferber. Perf. Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan. 1936. 112 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0028249.

Show Boat (Musical). Dir. George Sidney. Writ. Edna Ferber, Oscar Hammerstein II, John Lee Mahin, J.P. McGowan (uncr.), George Wells (uncr.). Lyricist: P.G. Wodehouse. Perf. Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Agnes Moorehead, Leif Erickson, William Warfield. 1951. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0044030.

Sling Blade [aka Reckoning]. Dir. Billy Bob Thornton. Writ. Billy Bob Thornton. Perf. Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakum, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, Robert DuVall. 1996. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117666.

Sounder. Dir. Martin Ritt. Writ. William H. Armstrong, Lonne Elder, III. Perf. Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield. 1972. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069303.

Southern Comfort. Dir. Walter Hill. Writ. Michael Kane, Walter Hill. Perf. Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Peter Coyote. 1981. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0083111.

The Southerner. Dir. Jean Renoir. Writ. George Perry Sessions, Hugo Butler. Perf. Zachary Scott, Betty Field. 1945. 92 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0038107.

The Spitfire Grill. Dir. Lee David Zlotoff. Writ. Lee David Zlotoff. Perf. Alison Elliott, Ellyn Burstein. 1996. 117 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117718.

Steel Magnolias. Dir. Herbert Ross. Writ. Robert Harling. Perf. Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley Maclaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Sam Shepard, Dylan McDermott. 1989. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098384.

A Streetcar Named Desire. Dir. Eliza Kazan. Writ. Oscar Saul, Tennessee Williams. Perf. Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden. 1951. 122 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0044081.

Tobacco Road. Dir. John Ford. Writ. Erskine Caldwell, Nunnally Johnson. Perf. Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Jean (Gene?) Tierney, William Tracy, Dana Andews, Ward Bond. 1941. 84 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0034297.

To Kill a Mockingbird. Dir. Robert Mulligan. Writ. Harper Lee, Horton Foote. Perf. Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Brock Peters, Estelle Evans, James Anderson, Robert Duvall. 1962. 129 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0056592.

Ulee’s Gold. Dir. Victor Nunez. Writ. Victor Nunez. Perf. Peter Fonda. 1997. 111 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120402.

Wild River. Dir. Eliza Kazan. Writ. Borden Deal, Paul Osborn, William Bradford Huie. Perf. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick. 1960. 100m.  http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054476.

IMDB User Comments:  Martin Andrew, NZ; Date: 1 October 1998; Summary: Quiet Kazan Masterwork. Available at URL above, 20 Aug. 1999.

The real undercurrent in 'Wild River' lies in the emotional interplay between the Clift and Remick characters. There's real depth of emotion here, and something, I suspect, well beyond the scope of the director. The passion seems tinged with a rare species of repulsion, (excuse the Freudian reading) like a child rejecting his mother even as he reciprocates her comfort. But there's real power in this romance; a power rarely translated into a filmic medium. Obviously this hints at the true selves of the actors themselves - the resistant, shy, passive Clift and the earthy, confident, sensitive Remick. In many ways, it's one of filmdom's great romances, and bears more than one watching.

At all stages the relationship is mirrored by the environment, and reflected by the resistance of the Jo Van Fleet character to the Tennessee Valley Authority's order of 'get out or be wiped out'. The 'wild river' of the title is, of course, more of an emotional, interiorised torrent than the Tennessee River itself.

Wise Blood. Dir. John Huston. Writ. Flannery O'Connor, Benedict Fitzgerald. Perf. Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton, Amy Wright, Mary Nell Santacroce, Ned Beatty, William Hickey. 1979. 108 m. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080140.
 

Bottoms, David. Any Cold Jordan.

---. Easter Weekend.

Chesnutt, Charles W. The Marrow of Tradition.

Faulkner, William. Light in August.

Mason, Bobbie Ann. Midnight Magic.

Naylor, Gloria. Mama Day.

O’Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories.

Settle, Mary Lee. Prisons.

Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels.

Smith, Lee. Oral History.

Bottoms, David. Armored Hearts: New and Selected Poems.

Hudgins, Andrew. After the Lost War: A Narrative.
 

Non-Fiction:

Criticism, Journalism, Books, and Articles,
Scholarly and "Popular," On-line and Off:

Balz, John.  "Many Shrug at Racial Division." Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug. 1999: A1, 4.

Bisher, Furman.  "Versatile and Fascinating, "'Ernestine' Was Eloquence" [re: Celestine Sibley].  Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug. 1999: D5.

"We were both country people, but she got to the city before I did. Never, though, did she adopt real 'citified' ways."

Bottoms, David.  Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems.  Port Townsend, WA: Copper, 1995.

---.  "Occurrence in the Big Sky." Poetry 171.1(Oct.-Nov.1997): 7-9.

Campbell, Colin. "Mall of Georgia Emblematic of South's Revolutions." Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug. 1999: B2.

"How altered it seemed from the Southern worlds of Margaret Mitchell and Celestine Sibley."

Cash, W.J.  The Mind of the South.  Intr. Bertram Wyatt-Brown. New York: Vintage-Random, 1991. ISBN 0-679-73647-6.

"City Folk Moving out to the Country Just ‘Need to Know.’" Portland (Maine) Press Herald 19 May 1999: D14.

"They need to know they’re not moving into a totally pristine area where nothing commercial happens."

"The Code of the West." Spokane (Washington) County Commission pamphlet, 1999.

The New Democrat (Democratic Leadership Council’s magazine, cover story on suburban sprawl, ca. May 1999.

Connaroe,  Joel. Rev. In a U-Haul North of Damascus. Washington Post Book World 7 Aug. 1983: 4.

Corrington, Timothy.  Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader.  Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 1999. ISBN 0-13-526542-8.

Eldridge, Richard. "Remembering Margaret" [re: 50th anniversary of Mitchell's death]. In Peach Buzz. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug. 1999: D2.

Mary Rose Taylor "read from Chapter 24 of 'Gone with the Wind' which details Scarlett O'Hara's return to Tara as a mature woman."

Johnson, Rheta Grimsley.  "Inspiration to a Generation of Writers" [re: Celestine Sibley]. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug. 1999: D5.

"The gruff, gray, male reporter that Gable and Bogart rendered so romantic died hard. . . .Celestine probably didn't consider herself a role model for Southern girls who longed to write for newspapers; she was no feminist crusader.But she inspired a generation of us, nonetheless."

"The Life of an Atlanta Storyteller" [re: Celestine Sibley]. Editorial. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug. 1999: A10.

"Sibley's life was like the life of the South."

Maddox, Lester. "In Memoriam: Maddox, Virginia Cox" [with picture of the couple]. In "Family-Placed Death Notices." Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug 1999: B7.

Morgan, Robert. Panel discussion on "Writing the Rural."  Brewton-Parker College. 14 Oct. 1997.

Nunez, Victor.  Interview. All Things Considered.  Natl. Public Radio. 25 June 1997.

O'Briant, Don.  "'My South Is Now Truly Gone': Thousands Mourn Sibley."  Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug. 1999: D1, 5.

Page, Clarence.  "Gore’s Hot Issue, Suburban Sprawl, May Soon Catch Fire." Portland (Maine) Press Herald 19 May 1999: A9.

"The so-called free market of suburban growth also has been aided by federal mortgage subsidies, a variety of local and national governmental tax breaks and innumerable subsidies of water, sewer, road and school construction. / Since government subsidies help fuel suburban growth, it is not unreasonable for the same government to help slow it down."

Roethke, Theodore.  Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966.

"Saving Affirmative Action." Editorial. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 Aug. 1999: A10.

Warren, Robert Penn. Dust jacket. Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, by David Bottoms. New York: Morrow, 1980.
 
 

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