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Title: Well Researched but Written in Prolix Style
Review: Allison Graham's FRAMING THE SOUTH offers a penetrating insight into the way Hollywood and the television networks of the 1950s and 1960s neutralized many of the issues concerning the struggle for civil rights happening in the United States. Many producers were simply scared to confront difficult material; they preferred instead to rehearse established conventions of white supremacy and/or 'redemption' associated with moving to the north of America from the 'unsophisticated' South. Graham's work represents a considerable effort of research, but her writing-style is unnecessarily prolix. She manages to make suggestive subjects sound rather mundane; this is due to a tendency to repeat herself, as well as using long rambling sentences. I can't help feeling that this is something of a missed opportunity.
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