Lights! Camera! Arkansas! traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywoodrsquo;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 Rockrsquo;s cameo in Gone with the Wind; Crittenden County as a setting for Hallelujah (1929); and various locations in the statersquo;s southeastern quadrant in 2012rsquo;s Mud are all given fascinating exploration.Robert Cochran and Suzanne McCray screened close to two hundred filmsmdash;from laughable box-office bombs to laudable examples of filmmaking -- in their research for this book. Theyrsquo;ve enhanced their spirited chronological narrative with an appendix on documentary films; a ratings section; and illustrations chosen by Jo Ellen Maack of the Old State House Museum; where Lights! Camera! Arkansas! debuted as an exhibit curated by the authors in 2013. The result is a book sure to entertain and inform those interested in Arkansas and the movies for years to come.
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