Beasts of The Southern Wild

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink's tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe

This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in literature and film to detail the workings of cultural memory in the present. Drawing on the fields of Southern Studies, Memory Studies and Black Studies, the book also engages psychoanalysis, Animal Studies and posthumanism to revitalize questions of the racialized body. Lloyd traces corporeal legacies in the US South through novels by Jesmyn Ward, Kathryn Stockett and others, alongside film and television such as Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Walking Dead. In all, the book explores the ways in which bodies in contemporary southern culture bear the traces of racial regulation and injury.

DAN ROMER
FILM COMPOSER / SONGWRITER / MUSIC PRODUCER
Dan Romer is an award-winning film composer, songwriter and music producer based in Los Angeles.

Dan Romer has recently scored the upcoming sci-fi romance Zoe. The film is directed by Drake Doremus (Like Crazy, Breathe In, Equals) and stars Ewan McGregor, Lea Seydoux, Christina Aguilera, Rashida Jones, Theo James and Miranda Otto. The movie follows two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab who design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. Richard Greenberg (The Beauty Inside) has written the screenplay. Doremus is also producing the project with Kevin Walsh (Manchester by the Sea, All the Money in the World), Michael Pruss and Robert George. Ridley Scott serves as an executive producer. Zoe will premiere as the opening night film in April as the Centerpiece Gala of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.

by Diana Adesola Mafe (Author)