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.