Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
From Belles to Bayous: The Fall of the South on Screen
Section One: The South in the Cultural Imaginary
1. The South as Region: Southern History, Southern Identity, and Perceptions of Southern Difference
2. From Sectionalism to Swamp People: Conceptualizations of Southern Otherness
3. Ghosts Fierce and Instructive: The South as Haunted Terrain
Section Two: Gothic Visions, Southern Stories
4. Crumbling Structures and Contaminated Narratives: Genre and the Gothic
5. Manifesting the Other
Section Three: The Southern Gothic on Screen
6. Locating the Gothic South
7. Slavery, Degeneracy, Myth, and Historical Resonances: A Survey of Southern Gothic Screen Texts.
Section Four: Case Studies: Toys in the Attic and Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
8. Reinterpreting Gothic Secrecy: Toys in the Attic
9. Finding the South in the Ethereal: Atmosphere and the Spectral in Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Conclusion
Fading, But Never Faded
Bibliography
Filmography
Television Series
Songs
Video Games
Websites
Index