Esther Yau requests: > A senior gender studies student, Jenna Skinner, is doing a comps. > project on "Cultural Representation of White Trash and Red-Neck Women in > Media." Would anyone suggest any film titles in addition to the > following ones? Depending on how wants to define the term and if it is not too limited in historical perspective: THE GRAPES OF WRATH the Ma and Pa Kettle films John Ford's PILGRIMAGE TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD FURY IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT BLACK LIKE ME Bette Davis in CABIN IN THE COTTON The musical L'IL ABNER TOBACCO ROAD BABY DOLL A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY THIEVES LIKE US (truer to the novel than the earlier THEY LIVE BY NIGHT) WHITE HEAT ULEE'S GOLD Roger Corman's SWAMP WOMEN BLOODY MAMA BIG BAD MAMA CRAZY MAMA MORTAL THOUGHTS WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD BETRAYED (the Winger film) ONE FALSE MOVE TRUE ROMANCE PULP FICTION (for Amanda Plummer, at least) JACKIE BROWN SILENCE OF THE LAMBS NELL JFK WILD AT HEART HOME FRIES FRIED GREEN TOMATOES NADINE MATEWAN LONE STAR THE LAST PICTURE SHOW MARIE SILKWOOD MASK (the Cher-Stoltz one) EASY RIDER BLAZE WUSA THE THREE FACES OF EVE SANCTUARY, THE RIEVERS (and other adaptations of Faulkner) THELMA AND LOUISE BILLY JACK WALKING TALL MISS FIRECRACKER STEEL MAGNOLIAS COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER CARRIE BADLANDS WISE BLOOD RAMBLING ROSE Don Larsson ---------------------- Donald Larsson Minnesota State U, Mankato [log in to unmask] ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]