Small-Screen Souths

Lisa Hinrichsen is associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas and the author of Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination, and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature. Gina Caison, the Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University, is the author of Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance and Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies. Stephanie Rountree is associate professor of English at the University of North Georgia and the coeditor, with Lisa Hinrichsen and Gina Caison, of Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South and Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South out of Region.

"Small-Screen Souths is indispensable reading for anyone in the fields of media, southern studies, and popular culture. The collection fills a significant gap in the scholarship and demonstrates the importance of region in analyzing the dynamic impact of television. The introduction skillfully situates the collection in the intersections of popular culture, television, and southern studies, giving the reader the necessary theoretical background and an excellent overview of the classic and current trends in the televisual South. The variety and scope of the essays and the strength of the introduction make this collection perfect for the classroom. Small-Screen Souths establishes the televisual South as a significant area of study that has been waiting for just such a collection." -Deborah E. Barker, author of Reconstructing Violence: The Southern Rape Complex in Film and Literature "Offering region as corrective lens, Small-Screen Souths expands our understanding of television as an ideological and a material medium, one whose physical and symbolic networks have from the start intertwined with 'the South' to stabilize and to challenge notions of identity, place, and nation. By turns illuminating, innovative, and provocative, these essays ask not (only) what TV has done with 'the South,' but what the South has done with, and for, TV. Wide-ranging in historical scope and always engaging, this collection lays a foundation that will support a generation of fascinating scholarship to come." - Katherine Henninger, author of Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing