Moviegoing, Southern Style

The new edition of the Oxford American, a literary magazine devoted to Southern culture, is sure to delight the region's moviegoers. This special issue focuses exclusively on movies by, for or about Southerners. Articles range in type from historical reflections on the Southern cinema to discussions of the role of race in movies to interviews with emerging regional filmmakers.

Taken together, the articles illustrate an observation made by the editors in an introductory essay:

"The borders of the cinematic South stretch far beyond our own. we can't hope to map it all; we can only hope for a rough sketch of where we've been. The South on film is as vast and troubled and rich as our history. We won't really know the place until we dig through all the vaults."