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The South never plays itself: The South on screen

The South never plays itself: The South on screen

Update: 2025-07-04
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This time out we are bringing you an encore from our broadcast archive featuring a conversation with Ben Beard, author of The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen (2020, UGA Press).

Beard’s idiosyncratic narrative—part cultural history, part film criticism, part memoir—journeys through genres and eras, issues and regions, smash blockbusters and microbudget indies to explore America’s past and troubled present, seen through Hollywood’s distorting lens. 

 In The South Never Plays Itself, Ben attempts to answer the question: what do movies know about the South that we don’t?

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The South never plays itself: The South on screen

The South never plays itself: The South on screen

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