Portrayal of the South in Films

For this week's topic I thought it would be interesting to analyze the portrayal of the South in films. The South is almost always depicted as a backwater and uncivilized place in most films. This is no exception in the film O' Brother Where Art Thou.
The film itself is very funny but it employs many negative stereotypes of the South to achieve laughs in many instances. In the clip above, the three escaped prisoners are seeking help from one of their relatives. He is shown wearing overalls with no shirt underneath them and sitting amongst waste and next to farm animals. Furthermore the film also uses the stereotype that the South is uneducated and backwards during the dinner scene. The man in overalls tries to tell his cousin something without informing his son by using the age old trick of spelling it out. However he spells out "RUNNOFT" when he means to say "ran off". As we all (hopefully) know "runnoft" is not a word. The barrage of derogatory stereotypes does not end there. The movie then bluntly insinuates that the stew they are eating is old horse meat stew...

Not food, silly UGA fan

Needless to say O' Brother Where Art Thou does not deal with the South with the utmost subtlety. However it is still an amusing movie that, regardless of the inaccuracy of stereotypes, contributes to the perception of the South in other parts of the country.

All right blog group, it's your turn... What do you think are some of the stereotypes that film and other mediums convey about the South?