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COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Guest Editor’s Box:
The Whole Bright Mess
by Derek Jenkins
Gone Off Up North:
Mad About Madea
by Roy Blount, Jr.
Local Fare:
Pressing Duck, Pressing Flesh
by John T. Edge
On Location:
Bullets and Bodies
by William Caverlee
On Actors:
From Hoofer to Gumshoe
by Jack Pendarvis
On Actors:
The Ideal Imposter
by Tom Carson
On Actors:
Hillbilly Heroine
by Cintra Wilson
On Directors:
Who Is John Huston?
by Joseph McBride
Dealer’s Choice:
Robert Altman (1925-2006)
by Hal Crowther
Southern Scenes:
Burt Reynolds, 1976
FEATURES
Shining Bright
John Ford’s vision of the South
by Phillip Lopate
Dancing in the Dark
Race, sex, the South, and exploitative cinema
by Gerald Early
How to Act
It ain't brain surgery but . . .
by Ray McKinnon
The OA Movie Guide
with Jack Pendarvis, M. Thomas Inge, Derek Jenkins, Thomas Doherty, Noel Murray, Matthew H. Bernstein, Francince Prose, John Cline, Scott Van Doviak, Jim Ridley, and Donna Bowman
Personal Filmmaker
A poet of American cinema whose thirty-year career began with a no-budget, gritty 16mm masterpiece
An interview with Charles Burnett
by Dennis Lim
Thirteen Essential Southern Documentaries, Part II
Oxford American editors & contributors on "What you should be watching"
Cover: Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones (1958), Courtesy of the United Artists/Photofest.
Title: Oxford American # 56, Spring 2007
Series: Oxford American
Item Number: OXFORDAMERICAN2007SP
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