While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and meaningful depictions of Appalachia\'s people.
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Inscoe argues that in the American imagination Appalachia has long represented far more than deprived and depraved hillbillies.
Surveying some two dozen films and the literary and historical sources from which they were adapted, John C.
While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and meaningful depictions of Appalachia\'s people