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Ben Beard veers like a man possessed through the fever swamps of Hollywood’s obsession with the South and the result is a clever and deftly written work—equal parts broadside and paean and wholly insightful. Movie aficionados will love this book even as they argue over some of Beard’s strong opinions. Casual movie-goers might very well become film buffs after reading it. —Ken Wells, author of Meely LaBauve and The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous https://www.bwbeard.com/about daily 0.75 2020-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4978f2fa85f11ef591b23/1598904207600-T1NVV1FSNH3UCN7QLBST/50286707442_3913d9e203_o.jpg about - Ben Beard is a writer and librarian. He is the author of The South Never Plays Itself, Muhammad Ali: The Greatest, and King Midas in Reverse, co-author of This Day in Civil Rights History, and the author of a forthcoming biography of filmmaker Joseph H. Lewis, I Told You I Was No Good. 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Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliverance to Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself, author Ben Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era, from President Wilson to President Trump, from musical to comedy to horror to crime to melodrama. 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. 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