Sunshine in the Dark
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Film History
Filmmakers
filmographies
Florida History
Florida images
Florida popular culture
Florida Scenery
Florida Stereotypes
Francis Ford Coppola
John Huston
location settings
Marx Brothers
Monster
Moon Over Miami
movie fans
movie history
movie industry
movie resource
Oliver Stone
Scarface
silent era
The Yearling
tourist destination
Product details
- ISBN 9780813029900
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 2006
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Florida has been the location and subject of hundreds of feature films, from ""Cocoanuts"" (1929) to ""Monster"" (2004). Portraying the state and its people from the silent era to the present, these films have explored the multitude of Florida images and cliches that have captured the public's imagination - a nature lover's paradise, a wildlife refuge, a tourist destination, home to the ""cracker,"" and a haven for the retired, the rich, the immigrant, and the criminal. ""Sunshine in the Dark"" is the first complete study of how the movie industry has immortalized Florida's extraordinary scenery, characters, and history on celluloid. 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. Prior to the 1960s, cinematic trips to Florida usually brought happy endings in movies like ""Moon Over Miami"" (1942), but since the 1970s, films like ""Scarface"" (1982) have emphasized the state's menacing aspects. 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). Featuring more than 100 still photographs from movies, as well as filmographies by year and genre, the book is an encyclopedic resource for movie fans and anyone interested in Florida popular culture.
Susan J. Fernandez is assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida. She has published articles on Cuban political economy and is the author of the Encyclopedia of World Cultures entry on Cuba.
