{"id":44005,"date":"2015-11-18T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44005"},"modified":"2015-11-18T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T22:24:18","slug":"from-legend-to-history-to-film-the-free-state-of-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44005","title":{"rendered":"From Legend to History to Film: \u201cThe Free State of Jones\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Legend to History to Film: \u201cThe Free State of Jones\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners<\/a>
\n2015-11-17<\/p>\n

Vikki Bynum<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History
\nTexas State University, San Marcos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe Free State of Jones<\/em><\/a>, the movie<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Between November 19\u201322, 2015, the Smithsonian Institute and National Endowment of the Humanities<\/a> will host a history film forum<\/a> at the National Museum of American History<\/a> in Washington DC<\/a>. The forum will include a panel discussion<\/a> of the forthcoming movie, The Free State of Jones<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

According to Executive Director and forum curator Christopher Wilson<\/a>, \u201cby looking at several brand new films that illuminate the Secrets of American History, we will consider the issues that arise when true stories of the past become the subject of our on-screen entertainment.\u201d To this end, on November 21, distinguished historians David Blight<\/a> and Steven Hahn<\/a> will join Gary Ross<\/a>, the movie\u2019s director and screenplay author, to discuss the challenges of bringing The Free State of Jones<\/em><\/a> to the Big Screen.<\/p>\n

The forum will also address the ways in which \u201cfilms reflect the social, political, and cultural concerns of the times in which they were made,\u201d which speaks to the question posed on Twitter by Kevin Levin<\/a> of Civil War Memory<\/em><\/a>: \u201cWhat has changed in our Civil War<\/a> memory to make room for just such a movie?\u201d<\/p>\n

Good question. Given that tales about the Free State of Jones have been around since before the Civil War ended, why wasn\u2019t a movie about these plain white farmers of Civil War Mississippi<\/a> who armed themselves and fought against the Confederacy<\/a> made before now?…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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