The Reconstruction of Asa Carter is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Marco Ricci. It is about Asa Earl Carter (1925–1979), who was a segregationist activist in the Southern United States in the 1950s and 1960s, before he had mainstream success in the 1970s as the supposed Cherokee novelist Forrest Carter, which created a scandal when his real identity was revealed.[1]
The film consists of archive footage and interviews with Carter's friends and associates, who were often unaware of his multiple careers and personas.[1][2] It was produced by G. T. T. Gone to Texas and ITVS. The runtime is 57 minutes.[3]
Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters wrote that the film does not pretend to reveal the true Carter, but treats his elusiveness and contradictory sides as traits in themselves.[4] In The Journal of American History, James I. Deutsch called the documentary fascinating and wrote that it is based on solid research, successfully showing Carter's different faces.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Deutsch, James I. (2013). "The Reconstruction of Asa Carter". The Journal of American History. 100 (1): 313–314. doi:10.1093/jahist/jat177.
- ^ Sobich, Nora (October 13, 2021). "Rassistischer Hochstapler aus Alabama - Das Doppelleben des Asa E. Carter". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved December 21, 2023.
- ^ Briley, Ron (2012). "Review: The Reconstruction of Asa Carter, by Douglas Newman, Laura Browder, Marco Ricci, Michael Fix, and Peter Olsen". The Public Historian. 34 (3): 98–100. doi:10.1525/tph.2012.34.3.98.
- ^ Fuchs, Cynthia (November 1, 2011). "The Reconstruction of Asa Carter". PopMatters. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
Further reading
- Luks, Joel (October 11, 2011). "What's true? The Reconstruction of Asa Carter examines double lives and secret identities". CultureMap Houston. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
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