{"id":12444,"date":"2018-12-28T15:12:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=12444"},"modified":"2019-01-03T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:00:17","slug":"hillbilly-trailer-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/hillbilly-trailer-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>hillbilly<\/em><\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Winner of the Best Documentary Feature at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival and made its New York City premiere at DOC NYC. Debuts Tuesday, January 8, 2019, on <span id=\"x_email_2\"><span id=\"x_email_3\"><span id=\"x_email_4\">Digital, Cable and Satellite<strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Sally Rubin and Ashley York<br \/>\nCast \u2013 bell hooks, Amythyst Kiah, Frank X Walker, Crystal Good, Ronny Cox, Billy Redden, Michael Apted, Silas House<br \/>\n1:25:1 Run Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the Filmmakers Say<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Since the presidential election, cultural divide in America has been the source of riveting and visceral discussions and arguments. Stereotyping and slurs are rampant, finger-pointing and name-calling abound. <em>hillbilly\u00a0<\/em>is a personal and political journey by the filmmakers into the heart of the Appalachian coalfields, exploring the role of media misrepresentation in their creation of the iconic American &#8220;hillbilly,&#8221; and examining the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of this infamous stereotype.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span id=\"x_email_41\">hillbilly<\/span><\/em><span id=\"x_email_42\"> will surprise if not shock imaginations because of its revelations, such as the renown artists, poets, activists, queer musicians, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaffrilachianpoets.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Affrilachian&#8221; poets<\/a>, and intersectional feminists who are unexpected voices emerging from this historically misunderstood region. Author, feminist, and social activist bell hooks is a hillbilly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XcWXIlLllKc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Gregg W. Morris can be reached at gmorris@hunter.cuny.edi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cinematic documentary  traces the evolution of the `hillbilly&#8217; stereotype in media and culture by connecting it to corporate exploitation of the region&#8217;s natural resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/hillbilly-trailer-greggwmorris\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1063,1062,1059,444,1058,1060,1064],"class_list":["post-12444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-appalachia","tag-ashley-york","tag-bell-hooks","tag-documentaries","tag-hillbilly","tag-opening-soon","tag-sally-rubin","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12444"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12495,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444\/revisions\/12495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}