"Lights Camera Arkansas " traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywood s film industry, from the first cowboy star, Broncho Billy Anderson, to Mary Steenburgen, Billy Bob Thornton, and many others. The Arkansas landscape also plays a starring role: North Little Rock s cameo in "Gone with the Wind," Crittenden County as a setting for "Hallelujah" (1929), and various locations in the state s southeastern quadrant in 2012 s "Mud" are all given fascinating exploration.
Robert Cochran and Suzanne McCray screened close to two hundred films from laughable box-office...
"Lights Camera Arkansas " traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywood s film industry, from the first cowboy star, Bro...
In 1979, Ed Stilley was leading a simple life as a farmer and singer of religious hymns in Hogscald Hollow, a tiny Ozark community south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Life was filled with hard work and making do for Ed, his wife Eliza, and their five children, who lived in many ways as if the second half of the twentieth century had never happened. But one day Ed's life was permanently altered. While plowing his field, he became convinced he was having a heart attack. Ed stopped his work and lay down on the ground. Staring at the sky, he saw himself as a large tortoise struggling to swim...
In 1979, Ed Stilley was leading a simple life as a farmer and singer of religious hymns in Hogscald Hollow, a tiny Ozark community south of Eureka Spr...
Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described hack writer, he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, even as his essentially romantic identification with the region he first visited as the vacationing child of mainstream parents was encouraged by editors and tempered by his scientific training. In The Ozarks, originally published in 1931, we have Randolph s first book-length portrait of the people he would spend the next half-century studying. The full range of Randolph s interests in language, in...
Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described hack writer, he was as much a figure of...
