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Author
Series
Bull Mountain volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally...
3) Wrong turn
Publisher
Saban Films
Formats
Description
Backwoods terror and nerve-jangling suspense meet when Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course, and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return, unless Jen's father can reach them in time....
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 71 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shelby Lee Adams has been photographing the eastern Kentucky Appalachian mountain people for thirty years, and been both praised and derided for his portraits of impoverished Appalachian families. Accused of perpetuating stereotypes, Adams is said to exploit his subjects; this documentary explores the controversy. The director allows Adams, his critics and the subjects of his work to speak their minds.
Author
Series
Bull Mountain volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Description
" "Brian Panowich stamps words on the page as if they've been blasted from the barrel of a shotgun, and as with a shotgun blast, no one is safe from the scattered fragments of history that impale the people of Bull Mountain."-Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy. The Godfather meets Daniel Woodrell in this Southern debut, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance. Clayton Burroughs comes from a long...
7) 10,000 BC
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 Blu-Ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater than they ever knew. At each encounter, the group is joined by other...
8) Deliverance
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Formats
Description
The Cahulawassee River is soon to be destroyed, along with the beautiful country that surrounds it. Eager to see it before it's gone, adventurer and outdoor fanatic, Lewis, organizes a trip for himself and his three friends, Ed, Drew and Bobby. They will canoe their way from top to bottom in search of great adventure. What they don't know is that they are in for much more than they originally bargained. Two mountain men take Ed and Bobby hostage....
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
5 DVDcs (823 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Get ready for some good old-fashioned fun with the Kettle family, featuring all ten of their classic films: The Egg and I; Ma and Pa Kettle; The Kettles in the Ozarks (WS); The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (WS); Ma and Pa Kettle at Home; Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair; Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki; Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm; Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town; and Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Television
Pub. Date
©2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Parton clan is determined to scrape together enough money to buy their beloved Mama the wedding ring she's long waited for. But a fierce blizzard threatens to demolish their dream. While the family struggles to save their beloved homestead, an important person in little Dolly's life suggests that her amazing voice and musical gifts may be destined for something far beyond Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains.
Author
Formats
Description
"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. The decline of white working-class Americans, a demographic that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm -- but never before written about as searingly from the inside. Former marine and Yale Law School graduate J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social,...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xviii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"At the center of Ramp Hollow is Stoll?s sensitive portrayal of Appalachian homesteads. Perched upon ridges and tucked into hollows, they combined small-scale farming and gardening with expansive foraging and hunting, along with distilling and trading, to achieve self-sufficiency and resist the dependence on cash and credit arising elsewhere in the United States. But the industrialization of the mountains shattered the ecological balance that sustained...
15) Hillbilly
Publisher
Sally Rubin and Ashley York
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed in Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, the movie uncovers an unexpected set of artists, poets, activists, queer musicians, 'Affrilachian' poets, and intersectional feminists, all unexpected voices emerging form this historically misunderstood region.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers," known for prematurely-aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature...
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