...), Wild River (1960), and Foxfire (1987). Inscoe argues these four films show both the tangible and intangible ways the moral, economic, and personal challenges that have long characterized southern highlanders’ relationships to farmland and agriculture and, by extension, those...

... of August King (1995), Sommersby (1993), Matewan (1987), and Wild River (1960) —even acknowledge race or a Black presence as integral to any part of the region or significant to its history. These films, two set in the nineteenth century and two...