Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 222 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "A few decades back, country boys with muscle under their hoods and moonshine in their trunks roared onto drive-in screens throughout rural America. These "hick flicks" grew in popularity throughout the '70s and reached their heyday with the 1977 release of Smokey and the Bandit. Within a few short years, however, the changing movie business and the collapse of the drive-in market would spell the end of so-called hixploitation." "This comprehensive study of the hixploitation genre is the first of its kind. Part I deals with "good ol' boys," from redneck sheriffs to honky-tonk heroes and beyond. Part II explores road movies, featuring back-road racers, truckers and everything in between. Part III covers movies about all manner of beasts - some of them human - populating America's swamps and woodlands. An afterword examines both the decline and metamorphosis of the genre. Photographs and a filmography accompany the witty text."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Rednecks in motion pictures
2. Appalachians (People) in motion pictures

Contents

1. Foreword : triumph of the hick / Chris Gore -- Preface : downriver -- 1. Moonshiners -- 2. Smokey the red-necked sheriff -- 3. Honky tonk heroes -- 4. Crackerjacks -- 5. Hick chicks -- 6. Dixie DeMilles -- 7. Around the track -- 8. From sea to shining sea -- 9. Fender benders -- 10. Keep on truckin' -- 11. The death of Bigfoot -- 12. Creepy critters -- 13. Hillbilly horror -- Afterword : the end of hixploitation?

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Filmography (p. 193-198).
2. Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-211) and index.