Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and what the Mountains Did to the MoviesThe 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 |
Contents
What Mountain Means What Hillbilly Implies | 1 |
Ambiguity and the Meanings of Mountains | 17 |
Everybodys Got One | 20 |
Comedies The Hillbilly as Fool | 21 |
Hillbilly Clowning | 28 |
Hillbilly Archaeology | 33 |
The Hillbilly Fool as Troubadour | 44 |
Ma and Pa Kettle | 53 |
Thunder Road | 124 |
The Sons of Doolin | 131 |
Bad Georgia Road | 135 |
The Biopix | 141 |
More than Dogpatch The Mountains as Monstrous | 149 |
Or All Balls No Strikes | 151 |
The Monster in the Mirror | 155 |
Deliverance on Location | 163 |
Andy Griffith as Clown | 57 |
The Hillbilly as Priapus | 61 |
Raising Arizona | 64 |
The Coonskin Cap Boys | 73 |
The Long and Winding Woad | 74 |
The Thrill of Buckskin | 76 |
The One and Only Original American Hillbilly | 78 |
King of the Wild Frontier | 82 |
Boone Jackson Houston | 86 |
Buckskin Doubt in the Age of Eisenhower | 90 |
Crockettdile Dundee the Last Great Davy | 94 |
The Hillbilly as Social Bandit Jesse James | 99 |
RubeinHoods | 102 |
Social Bandit Meets the Silver Screen | 107 |
Saving Jesses Face | 114 |
The Good Old Boys | 123 |
Andy Griffith as Masculine Monster | 167 |
The Mamas Boys | 173 |
Tolable David | 177 |
Stark Love | 190 |
Sergeant York | 207 |
Hillbilly Gals | 225 |
The Thunder Road of Feminism | 226 |
Seen but Not Heard | 232 |
Whos Wearing the Pants? | 235 |
Mannish Misfits | 242 |
Fooling with Economics | 247 |
Hillbilly Gals and Burly Cue | 253 |
Sources | 263 |
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