Columns & Departments

Guest Editor’s Box
THE WHOLE BRIGHT MESS
by Derek Jenkins

Gone Off Up North
MAD ABOUT MADEA
by Roy Blount, Jr.

Local Fare
PRESSING DUCK, PRESSING FLESH
by John T. Edge

On Location
BULLETS AND BODIES
by William Caverlee

On Actors
FROM HOOFER TO GUMSHOE
by Jack Pendarvis

On Actors
THE IDEAL IMPOSTER
by Tom Carson

On Actors
HILLBILLY HEROINE
by Cintra Wilson

On Directors
WHO IS JOHN HUSTON?
by Joseph McBride

Dealer’s Choice
ROBERT ALTMAN (1925–2006)
by Hal Crowther

Southern Scenes
Burt Reynolds, 1976

Features

SHINING BRIGHT
John Ford’s vision of the South.
by Phillip Lopate

DANCING IN THE DARK
Race, sex, the South, and exploitative cinema.
by Gerald Early

HOW TO ACT
It ain't brain surgery but . . .
by Ray McKinnon

THE OA MOVIE GUIDE
with Jack Pendarvis, M. Thomas Inge, Derek Jenkins, Thomas Doherty, Noel Murray, Matthew H. Bernstein, Francince Prose, John Cline, Scott Van Doviak, Jim Ridley, and Donna Bowman 

PERSONAL FILMMAKER
A poet of American cinema whose thirty-year career began with a no-budget, gritty 16mm masterpiece.
An interview with Charles Burnett
by Dennis Lim

THIRTEEN ESSENTIAL SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARIES, PART II
Oxford American editors & contributors on "What you should be watching"

Cover: Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in  The Defiant Ones (1958), Courtesy of the United Artists/Photofest