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- Title
The Nation's Bioregion: The South in Pare Lorentz's The River.
- Authors
KNEPPER, STEVEN E.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the 1938 documentary film "The River" directed by Pare Lorentz. Particular focus is given on how the film imagines the South during the Great Depression as an economic and an ecological disaster in the 1930s, saying that the film argues that the nation as a whole benefitted economically from the region's soil mining, and that the flooding was exacerbated by deforestation through the Mississippi River.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; UNITED States; RIVER, The (Film); LORENTZ, Pare; GREAT Depression, 1929-1939; SOUTHERN States in motion pictures; DEFORESTATION; FLOODS
- Publication
Southern Quarterly, 2017, Vol 55, Issue 1, p88
- ISSN
0038-4496
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism