![]() ![]() ![]() Hillbilly Elegy, published a few months before the 2016 presidential election, became an answer to didactic questions of Trump’s win, which were framed in terms of red and blue, urban and rural. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy in a $45 million deal. I thought of Deliverance recently, after Netflix secured the film rights to J.D. Christopher Dickey eventually wrote a memoir, Summer of Deliverance, that describes his own helpless feelings as he saw his father’s more complex work of fiction turn instrument for stereotypes, built to conflate innocence and evil to justify the abuse of a place through extractive industries and neglect. (Another scene from Deliverance -the one with the banjo boy-is a close second.) The association of that scene with Appalachia remains damaging to an entire region. The scene, which takes up more space in the film than in Dickey’s novel, also occupies more cultural space than almost any other image of the mountain South. So Christopher got a job working on the film-as a body double for Ned Beatty, in the “squeal like a pig” scene. His dad, James Dickey, was having his novel Deliverance turned into a movie. ![]() ![]() In 1972, Christopher Dickey had a summer job in North Georgia. ![]()
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