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Chapter 4 puts the infamous feuds of the late nineteenth century in family and community contexts. As the concept of Appalachian “otherness” began to take shape and solidify toward the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, feuding quickly came to the fore as one of its most pronounced and press-worthy components. These incidents inspired fictional treatments, sociological analyses, and many silent films that transformed the historical reality intro stereotypical contempt. Hollywood dramatizations of the feuding phenomenon have offered complex, emotionally charged, and even sympathetic versions of the feudists. At the turn of the century, Hollywood came to see Appalachian life and culture as prime fodder for the screen and produced nearly 500 “hillybilly films”—most short nickelodeons between 1904 and 1928. Films examined in this chapter include Tol’able David (1921), the sound version of The Trail of Lonesome Pine (1936), and 1949 film (Roseanna McCoy) and 2012 TV mini-series (Hatfields & McCoys) depictions of the Hatfields and the McCoys). The family unit is integral to all of these films, but in gendered and generational terms those relationships play out in a variety of ways. |
