Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies

Chapel Hill/London: The University of North Carolina Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1995). First Edition. Hardcover. [book is nice and clean with no discernible wear; jacket shows the tiniest bit of surface rubbing]. (B&W photographs) In this study, the author "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 oen-reelers to contemporary films such as Thelma and Louise and Raising Arizona, for representations of hillbillies in their recurring roles as symbolic 'cultural others.'" .