Southern Movie 1: “Straw Dogs” (2011)

The Southern Movies series explores images of the South in modern films as well as how those images affect American perspectives on the region. I knew from the opening scenes, when we see a truckload full of rednecks whooping and hollering down a winding backroad then wandering through the deep woods to gander at a deer they’ve killed, that Straw Dogs was going to be violent and that these rednecks would be the reason. This 2011 film centers on the conflicts that arise when a newly married young woman, who… Read more Southern Movie 1: “Straw Dogs” (2011) →