Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies
by Susan J. Fernandez & Robert P. Ingalls. Hardcover, 320 pgs. University Press of Florida, 2006.
Historians Fernandez and Ingalls have identified more than 300 films about Florida--many of them shot on location in the state--to analyze how filmmakers from the Marx Brothers and John Huston to Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola have portrayed the state and its people. In the authors' analysis of the films, which examines location settings, plotlines, and characters, they find a bevy of Florida stereotypes among the leading characters--from the struggling crackers in The Yearling (1946) to the drug-addicted con man in Adaptation (2002). Book features more than 100 still photographs as well as filmographies by year and genre.
by Susan J. Fernandez & Robert P. Ingalls. Hardcover, 320 pgs. University Press of Florida, 2006.
Historians Fernandez and Ingalls have identified more than 300 films about Florida--many of them shot on location in the state--to analyze how filmmakers from the Marx Brothers and John Huston to Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola have portrayed the state and its people. In the authors' analysis of the films, which examines location settings, plotlines, and characters, they find a bevy of Florida stereotypes among the leading characters--from the struggling crackers in The Yearling (1946) to the drug-addicted con man in Adaptation (2002). Book features more than 100 still photographs as well as filmographies by year and genre.
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