Beschreibung:
Robert Cochran has lived in Arkansas for thirty years and has produced many articles, books, and documentary films devoted to the arts in Arkansas. Suzanne McCray, a Fort Smith native, is a faculty member in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas and the vice provost of enrollment.
Lights! Camera! Arkansas! traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywood's film industry, from the first cowboy star, Broncho Billy Anderson, to Mary Steenburgen, Billy Bob Thornton, and many others. The Arkansas landscape also plays a starring role: North Little Rock's cameo in Gone with the Wind, Crittenden County as a setting for Hallelujah (1929), and various locations in the state's southeastern quadrant in 2012's Mud are all given fascinating exploration.