Conclusion
This conclusion settles on 1948 as an apt, if provisional, endpoint for the history of the southern cinema, citing several key events of that year: the presidential election and its exposure of deepening racial fissures, the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., and the launch of widespread commercial television programming. D. W. Griffith’s death, the last of James Agee’s brilliant film criticism, and the publication of William Faulkner’s novel Intruder in the Dust also made 1948 significant in these contexts of region, race, and media, suggesting the major events and transformations to come in the near future—not the least of which was the Civil Rights Movement.
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