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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225874021 Title: Screening a lynching : the Leo Frank case on film and television Author: Matthew Bernstein Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9780820327525 9780820332390 0820327522 0820332399 OCLC:225874021

  
  

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Screening a lynching : the Leo Frank case on film and television

Author:	Matthew Bernstein
Publisher:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	The Leo Frank case of 1913 was one of the most sensational trials of the early twentieth century. Frank, a northern Jewish factory supervisor in Atlanta, was convicted for the murder of Mary Phagan, a young laborer native to the South, largely on the perjured testimony of an African American janitor. The trial was both a murder mystery and a courtroom drama marked by lurid sexual speculation and overt racism. The subsequent lynching of Frank in 1915 by an angry mob only made the story more irresistible to historians, playwrights, novelists, musicians, and filmmakers. This book examines the feature films and television programs produced in response to the trial and lynching of Leo Frank. It considers the four major surviving American texts : Oscar Micheaux's film ?Murder in Harlem? (1936), Mervyn LeRoy's film ?They Won't Forget? (1937), the ?Profiles in Courage? television episode "John M. Slaton" (1964), and the two-part NBC miniseries ?The Murder of Mary Phagan? (1988). Complex issues like racism, anti-Semitism, class resentment, and sectionalism were compelling, yet difficult to portray in the mass media. Exploring the cultural and industrial contexts in which the works were produced, the author considers how they succeeded or failed in representing the case's many facets. Film and television shows can provide worthy interpretations of history, he argues, even when they depart from the historical record.  Read more...
Subjects	Frank, Leo, -- 1884-1915 -- In motion pictures. Frank, Leo, -- 1884-1915 -- On television. Frank, Leo, -- 1884-1915. View all subjects
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