Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television

Author/Contributor(s):	Bernstein, Matthew H
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	03/01/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Bernstein examines the feature films and television programs produced in response to the trial and lynching of Leo Frank and explains how complex issues like racism, anti-Semitism, class resentment, and sectionalism were at once irresistibly compelling and painfully difficult to portray in the mass media.