Southern Spaces (Dec 2010)
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
Abstract
In their review of the 2010 independent film Winter’s Bone, Michael Moon and Colin Talley draw upon the concept of the “shatter zone” in order to illuminate the local features of the film as well as to locate its place in the history of hill regions as sites of refuge and resistance. This review finds additional contexts for the film in regional music and the long-established "dark-fairytale" tradition of the Appalachians and the Ozarks. Spoiler alert: this review contains details of the plot.
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