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Reconstruction 5.3 (Summer 2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Iowa's population transitioned to its predominantly urban character back in the 1950s [8], and we thus have the same urban challenges as other states. |
 | | Develops themes oriented to stereotypes of character that drove the plots of films with Appalachian settings: the hillbilly fool, the coonskin cap boys, the social bandit, good old boys, mama's boys, and hillbilly gals. |
 | | This is not a serious omission, since the absence of discussion about “national character” or “national cultural identity” reflects the difficulty of identifying any such “essence” in the way that films within a nation portray the culture identity of that nation. |
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