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Appalachian Studies Area
American Culture Association
Atlanta, GA
April 12-15, 2006

Join us to talk about how Appalachia shows up on the big and small =
screens. Does popular culture give us the truth? Does it want the truth? =
Does Appalachia want to see the truth about itself? And so on.

Be willing to try out off-the-wall approaches. While it's fine to =
present on, say, Harlan County, USA or The Waltons, you might consider =
such topics as:

The Appalachian Aesthetics of Quentin Tarantino

Robert Mitchum: White Trash as Stagger Lee

and

Just Where Do the Beverly Hillbillies Come From Anyway?

As those topics suggest, I am especially interested in how mass culture =
uses Appalachia as an arena for discussing authenticity, class, and =
race, as well as the cultural politics of stereotyping.

Send a proposal of around 250 words in the body of an email to:

Jimmy Dean Smith
Associate Professor
English
Union College
Barbourville, KY 40906

jdsmith_at_unionky.edu

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