Fade In, Crossroads
A History of the Southern Cinema
Robert Jackson
Reviews and Awards
"[A] comprehensive study of the cinema of the American South meticulously researched." - Keith Hopper, Times Literary Supplement
"An extremely fascinating work on southern cinema that extends from actors, literary figures, and industry workers who influenced popular representations of the South to filmmakers who built homes emulating southern mansions to actors who brought their own interpretations of the South to the screen. Jackson intricately interweaves the contributions of African American cinema into this discussion, making it integral to rather than tangential to this engaging, thoughtful, and well researched examination of the Souths influence on Hollywood." - Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Covering both the famous and the obscure, Jackson's exciting and often surprising volume shows how integral southern topics and southern people were to filmmaking through the 1940s." - Ted Ownby, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi