Sooner Cinema: Oklahoma Goes To The Movies, a collection of essays featuring 20 different movies with Oklahoma themes or characters. Edited by Larry A. Van Meter, the book asks, within the context of American cinema, What does Oklahoma mean? According to Gray Frederickson, Academy Award winning film producer, many people don t know that Oklahoma has played a key role in movies since the beginning of the motion picture industry. It is certainly fitting that finally someone is assembling a book of essays that highlights the many wonderful contributions this state and its people have made to the motion picture industry.
Movies featured in the essays:

Oklahoma!
The Grapes of Wrath
Cimarron
The Outsiders
Silkwood
The Oklahoma Kid
This Stuff ll Kill Ya!
Tulsa
Far and Away
Where the Red Fern Grows
True Grit
Oklahoma Crude
In Old Oklahoma
Okie Noodling
Banned in Oklahoma
Bound for Glory
Hair
Tumbleweeds
Oklahoma Newsreels
Norman New Wave